On 11/6/2013 6:05 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Or are willing to be trained in. The problem is not the status quo in the organization, the problem is the intransigent inability to learn that far too many programmers seem to display. People should be wanting to use new technologies if available and appropriate. Of course the current language is a candidate and may be the right choice, it just shouldn't be assumed it is the only choice.
While your comment seems to be a commonsense truism, there are so many new things constantly coming out that one cannot possibly learn them all and pick the best, and even then there's another one that just appeared. It is not an unreasonable strategy to wait a bit and see which ones have staying power. Most don't, and in hindsight would have been a waste of time to learn.
