> The people I know care about programming, care about doing it well, care about elegant solutions, and care about a wonderful end product. What they don't care about are stupid language wars.
I was just thinking this same thing. My background is mostly in PHP, C#, and more recently JavaScript.
Each of these languages is completely different from each other, but I haven't gotten to point where I curse the fact that one program is written in one language versus the other.
Each language has it features and pitfalls, but as long as you can accomplish the task you've set out on, I'm not sure that it really matters.
For example, I absolutely love the ease of passing functions around in JavaScript, but you can also make a real stinkin' pile if you don't structure things right.
Having used JavaScript, I find myself thinking about using delegates and anonymous functions a lot more in C# than I did before because I've seen the benefit of them in JS.
You can't tell a good programmer by their choice in language but in how they leverage that language to make awesome software.
I was just thinking this same thing. My background is mostly in PHP, C#, and more recently JavaScript.
Each of these languages is completely different from each other, but I haven't gotten to point where I curse the fact that one program is written in one language versus the other.
Each language has it features and pitfalls, but as long as you can accomplish the task you've set out on, I'm not sure that it really matters.
For example, I absolutely love the ease of passing functions around in JavaScript, but you can also make a real stinkin' pile if you don't structure things right.
Having used JavaScript, I find myself thinking about using delegates and anonymous functions a lot more in C# than I did before because I've seen the benefit of them in JS.
You can't tell a good programmer by their choice in language but in how they leverage that language to make awesome software.