Every language that you learn and abandon, makes you understand the next one much quicker.
Yes, I think that's generally true, with one possible infamous exception: BASIC as it once was, with line numbers and numeric GOTOs all over the place -- a real nightmare for large projects.
I am not that keen on delegating node work at this time, because I want to play a bit more with it by myself.
It might be interesting to ask older programmers if they resisted getting into management simply because coding is such a pleasant occupation. We might find a lot of people unwilling to give up coding, even with a salary differential.
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Fair enough, to each his own. My time spent writing programs for the Apple II in the late 1970s, in 6502 assembly code, was largely non-transferable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer
Yes, I think that's generally true, with one possible infamous exception: BASIC as it once was, with line numbers and numeric GOTOs all over the place -- a real nightmare for large projects.
It might be interesting to ask older programmers if they resisted getting into management simply because coding is such a pleasant occupation. We might find a lot of people unwilling to give up coding, even with a salary differential.
I prefer to code and have avoided management. I explain it to people as "I would rather drive the race car than manage the race team."