Irrational Exuberance

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It's easy to get caught in the cycle of programming language acquisition or library re-implentation circuit. I'm here to propose a better way for spending our programming time to create more useful projects, and to become more versatile programmers.

You are responding to this comment written by dsmith on November 6th 2008, 23:09.

My romantic image of programmers is that of artisan, and not as professional; although there is room for professionalism as well from time-to-time.

What experienced programmer hasn't seen a few of his favourite technologies become bloated and obtuse from too much professionalism (XML); or simply become tiresome as the result of too much familiarity (Java).

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