Try to differentiate yourself. For example, when Java exploded in the mid-
1990s, everybody became a Java programmer, and the market became
flooded with cookie-cutter Java programmers. It’s really hard for people to
stand out as something that isn’t easily replaceable in that world. My whole
career I have tried to stay away from that. Operating system internals, while
not considered particularly sexy or part of the mainstream, have allowed me
to stand out because of the relatively few people who go into that and the
perception “Wow, that’s really hard.” Stay away from the mainstream and the
crowds, and find something that is gonna be stable—not just flash-in-theplan
technology.
Sam Lightstone
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Would you say (going with the person who asked Specialist or Generalist? on this forum, that the important skill is knowing how to program, rather than how to program a particular language?
I think once one has learned object-oriented programming in Java, then object-oriented programming in C# or Eiffel or whatever is easy, as long as one has learned object-oriented programming in general.
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