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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Companies Look For Specialists But Keep Generalists Longer</h1> |
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2019-07-17 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/jobs/">#jobs</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/specialists/">#specialists</a> |
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<p>If you know a lot about one single language, it may make it easier to get a |
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job, but in the long run, language usage dies or loses its charms and you'll |
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need to find something else. Knowing a bit about a lot of other languages |
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helps in the long run, not to mention that may help you think of better |
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solutions.</p> |
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<p>Even if you're in a shop that is mainly in one single language, that's no |
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excuse to not check other languages. But, then again, learning languages that |
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are just small changes on the current language would not help you either.</p> |
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<p>Alan Perlis, author of the ALGOL language, has one excellent phrase: "A |
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language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth |
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knowing."</p> |
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<p>I still maintain one single rule for programming languages: The language I use |
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at work must not be the same language I use outside it<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. That simple rule |
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made sure I was always learning something new.</p> |
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<p>Learning a new language can also help you understand things in some language |
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you used before: Rust help me understand how generics works in Java; seeing |
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how to do dependency injection in C++ help me understand how Spring does it in |
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Java.</p> |
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<p>On top of that, because I was always learning something new, moving between |
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projects was something that happened a lot. At one point, I was hired to work |
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with Python, but the contract was taking too long to be signed, and my manager |
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asked if I could help some other team with their iOS application. Because I |
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did learn a bit about Objective-C, surely I could help. Later, another project |
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in C show up and guess who also knew C?</p> |
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<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup> |
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<p>... which led me into some sad times when I was working with Python.</p> |
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/team-discussion">Global Changes Must Be Discussed With The Whole Team First</a> |
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/stupid-bugs-list">Keep A List of Stupid Bugs That Took More Than 1 Hour To Solve</a> >> |
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