On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 00:16, twitter.com/nfma <[email protected]> wrote: > In my experience, the "horizon widening" was big enough to pay off for every > second I spent learning new languages.
I am curious how you measure that. ;-) - But in general I can't see that BIG differences between new languages. But maybe this is due to the fact that I learned already about 12 programming languages and whatever new language I face, I can see mostly elements I already know. > If I had more time, I would, definitely, play with a lot more... If I would live in the realm eternity I wouldn't hesitate learning new stuff. But fact is: Everybody wants to have finished his stuff yesterday. ;-) On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 00:41, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Productivity gains are not the only reason to learn a new language > though, seeing how common problems are solved idiomatically in other > languages can make you a better programmer in the languages you are > already familiar in. Agree. But this does not apply for programming languages only - watch that video to get an idea: http://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_on_archeology_animal_photography_bbq.html So maybe, after you learned a few programming languages it gives you more horizon widening learning something completely different. In a lot of sciences for example people can learn from animals/biology. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:06, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > And what about just being curious how things work in the other languages ? I am known as a curious person, but I in general I am not curious for the sake of being curious. I want to solve problems and get things done - that is the basic idea behind. Although I admit, that you could say now: "So for the sake of getting things done you try to get things done" ;-) -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
