I saw this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76364/what-is-the-single-most-effective-thing-you-did-to-improve-your-programming-skill.
I thought to myself, Yes I agree with a lot of it. but then I thought, what should I NOT do? what of the things you did turn out to be just a waste of time, or worse, take your skills to a wrong direction.
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For a short while I thought that Object-Oriented Programming was the One True Way™ to program.
Fortunately, it didn't last long.
Peter Alexander
2010-10-30 20:11:48
Wait, what?! Are you kidding me?
Time Machine
2010-10-30 20:14:10
@Time Machine, @Peter probably learned about functional programming shortly after OOP :)
Frédéric Hamidi
2010-10-30 20:21:04
Functional programming is no use either: you can't just ignore the fact that a computer has state. FP is a very useful paradigm, but like OOP, it cannot be used in exclusion of others.
Peter Alexander
2010-10-30 20:24:46
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Learning the imperative way to program. I have tried so hard to get into the functional idiom but it'll take longer than a year it seems.
progo
2010-10-30 20:25:24