On 19 December 2014 at 19:15, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 12/18/2014 2:24 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> >> People aren't allocated work time to read books. > > > This can't be generally true. Most people who attend programming > conferences, for example, are attending on their employer's dime.
In my experience, only a select few highly privileged developers tend to have the opportunity to attend conferences, and such opportunities may be years apart. I don't think that's the 'general' case. The general case from my perspective, is people who go to work to get paid to pay their bills and enjoy their lives in whatever way they prefer to do that. They may or may not be good at their job, but the point is about their life's priorities. They're not necessarily 'bad' programmers; they may be perfectly capable of learning any new material they require to do their job on the fly... but if there's a significantly greater degree of friction than they expect (a precedent defined by competitors which we have no real control over), they will complain, and probably won't look again in the future. It takes a special kind of programmer who will continue to contribute substantial time to their skillset in their own time after they have already been reliably employed for a decent number of years. Those people are already here. Andrei's 'million users' are not, and those people are will largely be the people I describe, and most of them will learn on the fly, while on the job.
