On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:10:26 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > Well, not really. I mean, managers and HR all *believe* that to be so. > But that's because pretty much all non-programmers, even ones in the > software dev industry who really should know better, are stuck in this > bizarre idea that programming skills are somehow non-transferable > between languages. Which is obviously total bullcrap, but try explaining > that to self-assured HR folk and other pointy-hairs.
i completely agree with you once again. ;-) > Hell, my first introduction to JS, ASP (yea, it was a long time ago) and > web-dev in general was on-the-job as a fresh hire, and I was up to speed > in like a week or so, if even that. the same was happened to me when i was hired to do JavaME developement. that was the first time i have to do anything with Java, yet i managed to reach higher speed and quality that some of employer's existing "Java specialists". not 'cause i'm so brilliant, but 'cause i have a general programming experience, and learning new syntax and consulting dox on standard libraries aren't that hard. oh, well, i repeated Joel almost literally here. ;-)
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