I don’t think I could say it better than Rich in the last paragraph:
> And, you need to be careful to recognize the actual game involved. Programming mastery has little to do with languages, paradigms, platforms, building blocks, open source, conferences etc. These things change all the time and are not fundamental.
I disagree because even the Actor Model was inspired by Lisp and Physics. Why are we so against different ideas in programming? Theres no pure land ivory tower in development, whatever works will work because they are tools to a craftsman, you can't compete with new tools like the cloud deployments if you're still fighting with an old school server under the same load and achieve cost efficiency, programmers need to constantly relearn and reshape to keep up with the trades and the times.
I learn new programming languages to keep up with the market because the market isnt fair and loves hyped up new stuff and to also provide for myself and family, if I stayed with the programming language I had from high school, I might be a master in Visual Basic but also likely live not as well. In the end, its people's choice and tradeoff I guess.
Unless of course this person can supply a empirical causation, he isnt right.
> And, you need to be careful to recognize the actual game involved. Programming mastery has little to do with languages, paradigms, platforms, building blocks, open source, conferences etc. These things change all the time and are not fundamental.