Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Michael MacLeod]

Any programmer that only knows one language well isn't worth the time of
day. A decent programmer is going to be able to look at the problem,
determine if OO is a good fit or not, and use any of a number of languages
they know well, both OO and not, to solve the problem.

People that rail against Java - or any language - as not being a good fit
for everything under the sun or for being the latest 'fad' in computers
(despite being 15 years old) seem to have missed something important. I
wouldn't ask a contractor to build me a house with only a hammer, so there's
no reason why programmers should feel compelled to use only a single tool.

I'm not being a Java apologist here, I'm just glad that I understand both
the OO and the procedural paradigms, and that I know both C and Java (in
addition to others) equally well. I think that these skills and the ability
to know when to apply which ones will make me much more valuable to any
potential employers than a programmer hellbent on sticking to the one
language he/she knows.

On 10/27/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:09:28PM -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
> > So let me get this straight... you rate OO languages based on your
> ability
> > to write procedural code in them?
>
> No I just think knowing one language well is useful, so the language
> better fit more than one purpose.  Given a lot of things are not done
> well in OO, java is not a good tool for many things.  It is too focused
> on the current fad in programming languages. :)  Or perhaps java is the
> current fad in programming languages.  Programmers are expensive, just
> make the customer throw more resources at it to make up for us using
> this inefficient high level technology that does everything for us just
> inefficiently.  And OO is still a bad fit for a lot of problems.  Java
> can't be used unless you make it OO.
>
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