From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Competent programmers (was Re: is Lisp used in text parsing and processing tasks?) Date: 13 Nov 2002 19:06:30 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3246203190473740@naggum.no> References: <994828d9.0211121253.54b3a821@posting.google.com> <86ptt9d552.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037214391 18417 129.240.65.205 (13 Nov 2002 19:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Nov 2002 19:06:31 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46496 * Barry Margolin | A programmer who can't learn new languages easily, while not necessarily | incompetent, is at best mediocre. Does this apply to other things? Is a furiously fast and accurate typist on qwerty, if not necessarily incompetent, at best mediocre, if unable to switch to a dvorak layout? Is an author of great intellectual prowess and much acclaim, if not necessarily incompetent, at best mediocre, if unable to switch to a very different language? How trustworthy is a doctor of law or medicine who can easily change specialty? Would you take your pet to a veterinarian who boasted that he could learn a new animal easily? -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.