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Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:54 UTC (Tue) by FranTaylor (guest, #80190)
In reply to: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" by robert_s
Parent article: Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

"experienced programmers"

Cobol programmers are experienced programmers. Nintendo DS programmers are experienced programmers. They can have vast experience and yet they can also be very poor judges of languages that they haven't been paid to write in.


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Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

Posted Feb 6, 2013 11:07 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

Some of the criticism of JavaScript comes from experienced programmers who have a reasonable number of languages in their portfolio and who have the insight to make informed observations about language design. I don't think anyone was using "experienced" as a euphemism here.

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