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Re:Ask HN: When you meet a fellow programmer "in the wild", by benologist on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @04:53PM (#3799776)

What kind of work they do is far more interesting than what language they do it in.

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Re:Ask HN: When you meet a fellow programmer "in the wild", by akkartik on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:03PM (#3799823)

My mantra lately: there are no bad languages, only bad codebases.

(Corollary: most codebases are bad.)

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Re:Ask HN: When you meet a fellow programmer "in the wild", by probably on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:51PM (#3800039)

Of course, but after that part...

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Re:Ask HN: When you meet a fellow programmer "in the wild", by benologist on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @06:18PM (#3800156)

Well after that part either you find something about their work interesting or vice versa, or you look for some other common interest, or you go your separate ways...

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