[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Scott M. Jones]

On 2/2/17 12:56 PM, leam hall wrote:
> Scott, thanks for the quick response!
> 
> Understood that crossing boundaries isn't likely in a large
> organization, I've been in a few. Since I'm enjoying Ruby, being a
> DevOps/Puppet sort of guy is one path. However, if I understand
> correctly the Puppet DSL is less and less Ruby as the days go by. Still,
> the coder skills like testing, can carry over. I do have some active
> stuff on GitHub.
> 
> I know other languages like Python, Java, and C++ have a lot more jobs.
> I just code less in them, though it's been a decade or so since I looked
> at Java. 

You don't always get to do what you enjoy the most.  You need to flow
into what meets the needs of the business.  This means you need to find
the joy in what you're doing rather than expect to do what you think is
the most fun going in.  I always find tasks more interesting/enjoyable
once I dig into them and get over the initial comprehension hump.

I was originally a Unix/Java/Perl/C++ guy and had to move into C#/.Net
in the last job.  Did that for about two years and leveraged my Java
knowledge heavily.  By then I had lost all of my "religion" and didn't
mind the new challenges so much.  (Now they are moving into Scala.)

-Scott