Thursday, 20 July 2017

How does a programmer keep in touch with all the languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, etc.) he/she learnt during the last decade or two?

Fortran, Pascal, Shell Scripting, C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, HTML, JavaScript & SQL

I used them all over last two years depending on what problem I was solving, when and where. There is no way I can “keep in touch” will all those languages. It is not even expected.

I would have become irrelevant and jobless long ago if I had called myself “Fortran Programmer”. Stop looking at yourself as a programmer who knows a particular language or framework or platform or browser or tool. You will soon become obsolete. Look at yourself as a problem solver who can solve a variety of problems and pick the right weapon for each task.

For interviews, just highlight/choose one programming language, preferably, the one used in solving the latest problem. Don’t bother to apply at companies who expect you to remember the syntax of every single language you have ever used. They are wasting your time.

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