You'll learn Python quickly enough anyhow. Python is not very hard. 2010/11/5 Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>
> 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- Linux-user #496644 (http://counter.li.org) - first touch of linux in 2004 Demandoj en aŭ pri Esperanto? Questions about Esperanto? Vragen over Esperanto? Perguntas sobre o Esperanto? - http://demandoj.tk -- 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
