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At Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 06:13:44PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Jose Lerebours was observed uttering:
> You know, I think we are the only group of professionals that do not 
> necessarily have the luxury of remaining static throughout our careers; 
> at least not for a long while.

Yeah, but it can float between two extremes.  You can try and stay on top
of every latest fad that comes along and do nothing well, or you can learn
what you need to for various projects and stay -roughly- abreast of recent
developments so you're at least peripherally aware of what's available for
tasks...and save a lot of time and effort bypassing whole generations of
useless (or near-useless) crap.  :)

I've gone from installing every single linux kernel, (development or
stable), to, "Oh, we need to do this?  Let me check the latest kernel notes
and see if it's supported."  Some stuff is just overkill.  And I've long
since passed the point of youthful exuberance about testing every latest
toy into the zone where I only really give a damn about what can help me
get what I need done...done.

> PHP is my hottest thing now but facing an EDI project which involves 
> using .NET or C#.  Not a problem I say, heck, how tough can it be? 
> After all, I did pretty well with filePro 20 years ago  :-|

Erm.  Uhm.  Yeah, "No problem!"  *laugh*

When the seizures from the transition abate, lemme know.  :)

> I included all of these just to make sure no one felt left out and not 
> run the risk of been bias.  That being said, I wonder what JAVA and .NET 
> developers would say about filePro?  My guess is that they will wonder 
> how can we get anything done and stare at the if:then: dingy.

Probably about the same things that I said when I was dropped into fP after
doing C for years.  Or possibly worse...perl's spoiled me silly.

mark->
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