Re: F-22 ADA Programming

[Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:58:56 AM UTC-7, Bill White wrote:

> >>> Anyway, I think Bob is right that it shouldn't make a difference--a
> >>> competent programmer should be able to switch to a new language (or
> >>> OS or platform or toolset) fairly easily.
> 
> That's ok for people with no purpose other than to make money. Good
> programmers, the ones you want working for you and with you, usually love
> and hate languages for good reasons.

Beg to differ--**strongly**.  I think I'm a good programmer.  And while every language has its annoyances and some are more annoying than others, the things I love about programming--the problem-solving and creative aspects, among other things--don't have to do with one or another particular language.  (I recently completed a personal project, no money involved, in my least-favorite language, PHP, and still enjoyed working on it despite all the things I don't like about that language.  I chose PHP because I knew it would work on that particular platform and I didn't know what else would work.)

I would hope that programmers who love the art of programming more than they love working in a particular language are the majority, not the minority.
Please do not denigrate us as having "no purpose other than to make money."  Thank you.

> Many people 
> like to kid themselves and point out how they can learn new languages and 
> technologies all the time and they happily bounce from job to job coding web 
> or iPhone apps. 

> But those people are either lying to themselves in that they don't really 
> ever learn anything and become cut and paste junkies or they are more 
> focused on business or how many apps they have worked on or other issues and 
> coding is just a way to accomplish that. 

I believe you are way, way off base here, although I'm sure there are some such programmers who are kidding themselves.

                             -- Adam