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Re:Being a polyglot programmer by blacksmythe on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:15PM (#4749636) 

  (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthewPhillips)
 
  "My current interests are in Clojure, ClojureScript, and IndexedDB."
Yet it appears that you are keeping quite current with new technology :)
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Re:Being a polyglot programmer by chc on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:47PM (#4749853)
There are lots of other shiny new things that he could have learned. Clojure happens to be a rather practical new language to learn if you already know Java, and ClojureScript has a pretty small hump if you already know Clojure and JavaScript (which, lest anyone forget, is about 15 years old now).
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Re:Being a polyglot programmer by MatthewPhillips on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @07:59PM (#4751688)
Yeah, I never said I don't want to learn new things. I still have a desire to be employable, and if something new seems novel I'll look into it. But I have, for example, no desire to learn any new OOP languages (aside from a quick look) until the ones I already know become irrelevant.
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