On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote: > This affect only works if the languages are sufficiently different to > have different "obvious" solutions for a large number of problems. > This is why people recommend learning a LISP even if you'll never use > it - it will expand the way you look at problems.
True, and why for years I've recommended to the CFML developers I interact with that they should learn languages like Prolog and Haskell rather than Java. Now I have the luxury of recommending they learn Clojure so they can stay within the JVM :) FWIW, my constant tweets and blog posts about Clojure have encouraged a number of them to try Clojure but most of them don't yet see a use case for it (because a lot of their apps are UI intensive and mostly just do CRUD behind the scenes - which CFML is very good at, especially now it has Hibernate ORM built-in). > So even if you restrict yourself to > multilingual programmers, multiple implementation languages cuts down > on the pool of qualified people. True dat... I know a lot of languages but Python is not one of them so I'd be no use for that hypothetical job (and why I was bummed when my former boss at Macromedia went to Linden Labs - because they required developers to know Python and I wasn't qualified to work for her :( -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
