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Please no! Someone may try to actually use this in some corporate production model -- I can see the carnage now - the language, editors where you can write left to right, right to left, or even vertically with an exta cost plug-in, training courses at $1500/day -- the horror of it all! Don't forget the vertical camelcase variable names where letters appear, not only in both cases, but on two lines. You know of course, tehre's a special place for you when the mist clears. You'll either be stuck in the Bank of America customer care department for eternity, or, be stuck in the other Big Red helping to get Larry Elisson's network computer workig -- FOREVER.


No one hires for technical bullet points -- that used to be thing in the 90s where engineers had a page full of "I know this language/framework". We found it didn't really tell us anything -- the languages and frameworks move so quickly, no recruiter or manager can keep them stragiht. If you want to get noticed for an interview, show me examples what you've actually done, and how it had a positive impact, or, show me what you've created -- cool and inspirational always wins. A professional photographer doesn't go into the interview with "I know this camera" or "I am an expert on lighting"-- that comes up in the interview, but they lead with "Here is my portfolio. As you see, I am particularly focussed on wild animal photography." If the company needs that, the rest is detail.


It is also important to remember, languages are tools, not religions. I did a lot of Fortran work for scientific work, Pascal for desktop apps of the day, and C becuase, like today, there's very little hardware C can't get access to. That's the point. We use each language for what it's really good at. We keep the old langauges around because, to be honest, can you swear changing those Fortran libraries will work without breaking something -- who can you check with? The author is probably retired, or dead. Often old languages exist because, like mainframes, the code works and no one dares to change it.


I'm both amused and saddened. I still occasionally run into Fortran, Perl, Pascal you name it. I do more work in Golang, C++ or Scala these days, but I am always reminded that at once time, Pascal and C ruled. What is sad is that the language of the day group has declared the Queen dead but she's still quite alive -- older, but alive. This is programming folks -- we are programmers. We write in the language that is asked of us. We can't know every language, but flexibility matters -- both in languages and us. Sure Rust is hot right now, but I remember when that was Scala. Remember when D was going to replace C++? Learn what you can in as many places as you can.


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