>>>>> "Alistair" == Alistair Ward <aw...@forum8.co.nz> writes:
Alistair> I'm firmly of the belief that for a good developer the
Alistair> toolset being used is irrelevant. A person with the
Alistair> right background and fundamental skills can pick up any
Alistair> programming language/environment in relatively short
Alistair> order.
I think that is quite misguided. To become productive in a new
environment, takes years. It does not matter how good you think you
are.
To be productive in an environment you simply need to know a lot of
little things. That takes time.
If you switch to an entirely different platform, 1-tier to REST for
example, you might never truly
make it.
Alistair> I picked up Delphi (v2) very quickly, coming from a
Alistair> previous background of C and C++, although I had done a
Alistair> lot of Pascal at university. I have to say that I'm not
Alistair> looking forward to going back to curly braces...
But now we're talking about languages that are basically the same with
a minor difference in syntax. The C++/Delpi/VB switch might be as you
describe, switching to PHP + the entire web development stack takes
much longer.
--
All the best,
Berend de Boer
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