On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Matej Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > Just my personal experience, but after passively learning many many > languages, I came to the conclusion that I (and I suppose many others) am > able to learn only one platform well. The point is that you are never > interested in learning *a language*, everybody who has at least some touch > with programming can learn most languages in one session in the afternoon. > But nobody is interested in you knowing a language, you need to know the > platform with all libraries, standards, style, and culture. And *that* > demands you focus on one language completely.
Currently, I'm working professionally in Pike, C++, bash, PHP, and Javascript, but only one platform: Unix. Everything's done to our own internal philosophy, which mostly aligns with the Unix notion of building small tools that link together (rather than monoliths for entire tasks). Learning and managing multiple languages isn't itself a problem, though I do recommend learning just one at a time until you stop considering yourself a novice (master a half-dozen languages or so, that's a start). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list