What Is Your Animal Personality?
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Do you remember when it was possible to be an expert in several computer languages? Between about 1980, when high-level languages started to be commonly studied, and around 1995, a student of computing might be highly competent in Pascal, Ada, Cobol and Basic. They might also have a working knowledge of Fortran, 68000 assembler and Forth, and they'd at least be aware of Awk, Oberon, and BCPL.
Now it's almost impossible to be a genuine expert in just one language, like C++. There's lots of people who have expertise in one or two kinds of application in C++, but I'd think less than 50 in the world who could use it to create any application - and most of them incapable of explaining it to the rest of us. The same goes for Linux.
In the relatively small field I'm looking at now - solid dymanics modelling applied to musical sound - there's Csound, Max/MSP, PureData and others, all powerful, flexible, and with their own philosophies and communities.
And there's me, struggling with introductions to pointers, structs and classes in C++, after a decade in the wilderness. Was that really me who used to spend every spare hour making graphics and games on a 48K Spectrum?
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