What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years

Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by westoque on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:28PM (#9338485)

> In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is actually good (and bad) for.

A couple of things:

- A good programmer won't just write C++ in the style of Basic.

- A good programmer wouldn't just use C++ to accomplish a task, there must be a legitimate reason, performance, etc.

I myself have done exactly this, I just wrote a Ruby C-extension to make my program faster and I definitely didn't write it in the style of Ruby.

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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by emodendroket on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:19AM (#9340525)

Well even the best programmers have deadlines or have to work with something outside their main expertise. I've written and deployed CSS and Windows batch scripts but I'd be pretty stuck trying to compose either without reference materials.

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