Comments on: When to ignore perfectly good advice http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/12/20/when-to-ignore-perfectly-good-advice/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Job http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/12/20/when-to-ignore-perfectly-good-advice/#comment-20422 Job Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:47:57 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2982#comment-20422 It also depends on the language and previous languages learned. Go was designed to feel familiar to people who know C-style languages, and I think because of that relatively easy to pick up if you are a bit familiar with any of those.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/12/20/when-to-ignore-perfectly-good-advice/#comment-20421 Xaprb Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:12:57 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2982#comment-20421 I’ve spent a lot more time in Go’s library documentation than I have in the language docs.

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/12/20/when-to-ignore-perfectly-good-advice/#comment-20420 Tim McCormack Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:59:26 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2982#comment-20420 This is also an area where many, many people have a heuristic that I feel is wrong, namely that languages are harder to learn than decent-sized libraries or tools. In fact, they’re really not much different, the result being that folks overestimate the time required to learn a language and underestimate the time required to learn a library or tool.

In both cases, you can also factor in skill transferability. For instance, someone who knows two ALGOL-family languages will have no difficulty picking up a third.

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