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A comment on Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?.

Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a be... by rqebmm on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:12PM (#9058593)
I think you're overemphasizing Hickey's first thought. His second boils down to "be careful to recognize the actual game involved. Programming mastery has little to do with languages"

To me it sounds like he's saying "understand the underlying patterns and techniques that make good programs in any language" not "stick with one, and only one, language until you know it inside and out".

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Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a be... by ternaryoperator on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:46AM (#9061088)
Exactly this. Hickey, after all, wrote Clojure. So, he's not against learning new languages, but his point is precisely what you state.
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Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a be... by gaius on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:27PM (#9058690)
Yes exactly that. In the same way you need a camera to be a photographer, and you need to be competent in its operation, but the endless search for a better camera is not what photography is about.
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