[DUG] Company closing

[Berend de Boer]

>>>>> "Alistair" == Alistair Ward <award at forum8.co.nz> writes:

    Alistair> I'm firmly of the belief that for a good developer the
    Alistair> toolset being used is irrelevant. A person with the
    Alistair> right background and fundamental skills can pick up any
    Alistair> programming language/environment in relatively short
    Alistair> order.

I think that is quite misguided. To become productive in a new
environment, takes years. It does not matter how good you think you
are.

To be productive in an environment you simply need to know a lot of
little things. That takes time.

If you switch to an entirely different platform, 1-tier to REST for
example, you might never truly
make it.


    Alistair> I picked up Delphi (v2) very quickly, coming from a
    Alistair> previous background of C and C++, although I had done a
    Alistair> lot of Pascal at university. I have to say that I'm not
    Alistair> looking forward to going back to curly braces...

But now we're talking about languages that are basically the same with
a minor difference in syntax. The C++/Delpi/VB switch might be as you
describe, switching to PHP + the entire web development stack takes
much longer.

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All the best,

Berend de Boer