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Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony

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Re: Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony

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Why bother learning another language that is almost the same, like PHP and Ruby? In both you need to keep up with lots of dependencies and practices that keep popping up, and it's a waste of time doing it for both in parallel. I'd say it's better to focus on one language, and if it becomes obsolete I don't see why you couldn't just dedicate a week to master the other one. And anyway I don't see how one of those langu…

...if you think that PHP and Ruby are "almost the same", you are probably one of the one-trick ponies.

Am I? See my other reply. And now I think you are the one trick pony, who thinks switching languages from the same paradigm is a challenge.
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