Most computer programmers learn one programming language.
I think the technical term usually referred to those programmers is "unemployed". It could be argued that other acceptable terms are, "lazy", "dinosaurs", "students", and "People who switched to a major like Business or Human Resources after they realized Comp Sci was too tough for them."
I don't know a single good programmer who only knows 1 language... Many I know will try to at least get familiarized with a new language 1 or 2 years.
Comparing knowing a number of computer languages to a number of spoken
Most computer programmers learn one programming language.
I think the technical term usually referred to those programmers is "unemployed". It could be argued that other acceptable terms are, "lazy", "dinosaurs", "students", and "People who switched to a major like Business or Human Resources after they realized Comp Sci was too tough for them."
Even the dinosaurs had to know one language. JCL is a language. IBM Linkage Editor had a set of directives. Then there were the various system utility programs and sort/merge. Some of them were declarative, rather than procedural, but they each had a set of syntax rules that had to be learned.
I was mostly just trying to interject humor, but I suppose it is unfair to characterize the dinosaurs as only knowing one language. I've actually used JCL, though I suppose I didn't count that in my mental list of languages I've used...
The truth is, even during an experience where I was working with dinosaurs maintaining legacy systems, updating some code which hadn't been updated in more than 20 years using systems that had strong links to punch-cards, it was still expected that the programmers know more than one language. We used COBOL, Mark IV, Natural, JCL, and Java there.
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Most computer programmers learn one programming language.
I think the technical term usually referred to those programmers is "unemployed". It could be argued that other acceptable terms are, "lazy", "dinosaurs", "students", and "People who switched to a major like Business or Human Resources after they realized Comp Sci was too tough for them."
I don't know a single good programmer who only knows 1 language... Many I know will try to at least get familiarized with a new language 1 or 2 years.
Comparing knowing a number of computer languages to a number of spoken
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Most computer programmers learn one programming language.
I think the technical term usually referred to those programmers is "unemployed". It could be argued that other acceptable terms are, "lazy", "dinosaurs", "students", and "People who switched to a major like Business or Human Resources after they realized Comp Sci was too tough for them."
Even the dinosaurs had to know one language. JCL is a language. IBM Linkage Editor had a set of directives. Then there were the various system utility programs and sort/merge. Some of them were declarative, rather than procedural, but they each had a set of syntax rules that had to be learned.
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I was mostly just trying to interject humor, but I suppose it is unfair to characterize the dinosaurs as only knowing one language. I've actually used JCL, though I suppose I didn't count that in my mental list of languages I've used...
The truth is, even during an experience where I was working with dinosaurs maintaining legacy systems, updating some code which hadn't been updated in more than 20 years using systems that had strong links to punch-cards, it was still expected that the programmers know more than one language. We used COBOL, Mark IV, Natural, JCL, and Java there.
Even dinosaurs are multilingual...