On Dec 14, 11:56 am, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:13 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 14, 8:33 am, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > >> Do you know any one computer language thoroughly? Or just a little of > >> many languages? > > > There is a quote by Bruce Lee to the effect: > > I am not afraid of the man who knows 10,000 kicks > > I am afraid of the man who has practised 1 kick 10,000 times > > It's worth pointing out that kicks stay relevant for your entire life. > Unfortunately, many programming languages don't. > > I guess the next metaphor would be stock investments and > diversification. Point is, don't just practice one kick. > > -- Devin
Then again its worth pointing out that there is difference between programming and (a) programming language. If that were not so the whole idea of a 'degree' in computer 'science' that is by implication on par with other sciences would be completely bogus. That academic computer science gets its act more wrong than right is a different question: http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-1.html The point of those posts is that this is the current state of CS education; however that is not necessary condition. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
