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Quotes of the day:
This is where pragmatism comes in. You shouldn’t be wedded to any particular technology, but have a broad enough background and experience base to allow you to choose good solutions in particular situations.
1. Your background stems from an understanding of the basic principles of computer science
and
2. Your experience comes from a wide range of practical projects.
Theory and practice combine to make you strong. (…) Pragmatic programmers get the job done, and do it well.
(Excerpt from The Pragmatic Programmer from journeyman to master, a book I should have read a long time ago.)
I must say I find it sad when I hear people advocating for a single, magic, most powerful language (usually C++ or Java ) or constantly cursing things that have proven to be really useful to lots of people (PHP, Javascript and WordPress are the first that come to my mind). I greatly admire inquisitive people who are able to just start playing with a new language on Friday afternoon. There is the passion, there is the pragmatism.
To be continued…
