[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Phil Turmel]

On 02/02/2017 01:24 PM, Scott M. Jones wrote:
> On 2/2/17 12:56 PM, leam hall wrote:
>> Scott, thanks for the quick response!
>>
>> Understood that crossing boundaries isn't likely in a large
>> organization, I've been in a few. Since I'm enjoying Ruby, being a
>> DevOps/Puppet sort of guy is one path. However, if I understand
>> correctly the Puppet DSL is less and less Ruby as the days go by. Still,
>> the coder skills like testing, can carry over. I do have some active
>> stuff on GitHub.
>>
>> I know other languages like Python, Java, and C++ have a lot more jobs.
>> I just code less in them, though it's been a decade or so since I looked
>> at Java. 
> 
> You don't always get to do what you enjoy the most.  You need to flow
> into what meets the needs of the business.  This means you need to find
> the joy in what you're doing rather than expect to do what you think is
> the most fun going in.  I always find tasks more interesting/enjoyable
> once I dig into them and get over the initial comprehension hump.

Yup.  I supply my business customers code based on the platform at hand,
not what I like.  Unless I'm too busy, and then I simply no-quote the
stuff I don't like.

> I was originally a Unix/Java/Perl/C++ guy and had to move into C#/.Net
> in the last job.  Did that for about two years and leveraged my Java
> knowledge heavily.  By then I had lost all of my "religion" and didn't
> mind the new challenges so much.  (Now they are moving into Scala.)

I've stumbled into a profitable niche that consumes a great deal of java
and jython.  Fortunately, I really like python.

Phil