Lazycoder

Hi Scott,

I think you completely misinterpreted my post. I said this, verbatim:

“Yet, any programmer worth their weight in silicon must know multiple languages.”

I explicitly say that it’s important to have a language _set_, I refer to “3 sharp saws”, and so on. It’s hard to believe one would conclude I’m against polyglot programming after reading my full post.

Moreover, on your last entry you said “There’s no research or study that shows that learning impedes further learning.” as if that were the point I made. That’s another distortion. I explicitly pitch dabbling in languages against _other forms of learning_, based solely on the idea that it’s _inefficient_. I don’t even come close to making such a ridiculous claim, as no sane person would. I advocate learning in the whole piece, I just point out that there’s more than one way to learn, and that imho learning a whole bunch of languages (or one a year) is not the best use of your learning time.

Finally, with regards to functional programming (a point brought up by a previous commenter), my academic background is in math and I’m well versed in LISP and functional programming in general, both in theory and practice.

cheers,
Gustavo