There is no such thing as an "expert" in a programming language

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[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Haha. Yeh. But I see this all the time with new kids coming in at work.

I get pretty frustrated with how the company focuses so much on metrics on your completed tickets or dev work making it more important than what you actually do. This leads to new devs looking up some similar issue on stack overflow or server fault, getting the issue to "just working", close tickets and move on.

When we transitioned from py2.7 to 3.6, it was a shit show. I made sure I let everyone know python was garbage. Of course, I'm an obseleted C/C++ dev who is transitioning to DevOps, so call me bitter.

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I made sure I let everyone know python was garbage.

What's wrong with Python? Sure, it is a scripting language, but it is a good scripting language. Scripting languages have their role, see Ousterhout.