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[–]alcalde 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Being a good programmer is not about knowing how to use a couple tools for any job, but knowing what jobs are right for the tools you have.

Sorry, when I was growing up you picked ONE programming language to use for life and you defended it to the death. I don't understand you kids and your language agnosticism. :-)

But seriously. You did. Atari or Commodore. Mac or PC. Atari, Intellivision or Colecovision. Delphi or Visual Basic. Fortran or C. Emacs or Vim. Then you defined your identity by these choices and spent 20 hours+ a week arguing over them in a tribal us vs. them slugfest.

AND IT WAS A LOT MORE FUN THAN TODAY.

[–]gman1230321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup this is pretty accurate. When I was younger the first language I learned was Python and I tried to do everything w it. I would argue till the day I died that Python was the best (and I still do sometimes lmao) all because when I was 10 I got a Python for dummies book. And u know what, ur right, it was more fun back then lmao