Become Obsolete
this is a follow-on to a previous post Never Feel Safe. maybe this is a series? who knows.
Here are some technologies that I’ve spent significant time and energy learning, that have seen better days:
- MFC
- Javaspaces
- CORBA
- CLIPS
- HLA
- 6809 assembly language
- 1802 assembly language
- XML-RPC
- Commodore 64 BASIC
- Ant
- TextPad
- XLispStat
My brain at times feels full to the point of tearing at the seams. There seems to be no room for more. Would I not be better served by finding a nice safe job maintaining a legacy system using one or more of these technologies that I’ve agonized over?
Never.
Seek out the new technologies1. If your brain feels as if it will burst — so be it. Let it burst. It will heal and you will be a better programmer afterwards.
Never become complacent.
Become obsolete.
:F
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“New technologies” is a loaded term. Bear in mind that “new” and “hot” are orthogonal concerns in my usage. ↩
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