On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I've found no evidence to suggest that someone talented couldn't be great > > at both, if they put the effort into it. > > > > The second you start dividing your time, your coding skills suffer. As someone with such a background, I can say this is true. > Stop programming for a few weeks and you get rusty fast. This might be a tad extreme.. > Stop for a few months, and you might as well be learning a language from > scratch. Every developer I've personally talked to about this has agreed. Sorry, this ain't so. Now you have an (ex-)developer telling you something different. The language is relatively static and hard to forget. The real trouble is in new frameworks--keeping up with those is the hassle, but even so, I can jump right back into the frameworks I've used a lot no problem. > You may always be able to > think programmatically, but actually writing the code, let alone doing it > well? It's like a second language you never really master and can forget on > a dime. > This is crazy talk. I wager it'd take me many years to really get so rusty I couldn't be productive in a short amount of time, with either a framework/language I was good at or even a new one, really. Devs have to learn new languages/frameworks all the time. It's part of the job description. And you can't just go about forgetting them willy nilly. -ambrose ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
