On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 01:00:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 04:56:20PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 7/26/2014 4:42 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>On the topic of professional growth, I was asked this week in
>a work
>meeting what I think I can do for mine.... and I didn't
>really have
>an answer.
[...]
Interestingly, I've been programming for 40 years, and I'm
constantly
learning new ways of programming. It's a combination of
experience,
changing hardware, and new ideas.
The Warp program I did for FB, for example, is pretty unlike
anything
I've written before in the way it's put together.
I've to say, that learning D and contributing to D has greatly
expanded
my programming horizons. I've been doing C/C++ for about 2
decades, and
about 8 years ago I felt I'd started to taper off in terms of
learning
new things in programming. Until I found D, that is. D made
hard /
complex things in C++ easy, and opened up new horizons -- like
weak
purity, range-based component programming, new possibilities in
metaprogramming, etc..
Contributing to Phobos was also quite eye-opening in learning
about
novel ways of handling common tasks in a standard library. I
daresay I
learned more contributing to Phobos than from my full-time job
(mainly C
with some C++ and a smattering of Javascript, PHP, and some
other
stuff).
T
For me is actually thanks to my interest in compiler development
while at the university, that I keep on.
I got/get to read so many papers, programming manuals and design
rationales that I keep on learning about how to structure code,
algorithms and lots of other nice stuff.
--
Paulo
