my journey in becoming a polyglot
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My journey in
becoming a
polyglot
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What is a polyglot
“A Person who speaks many langauges”
“Having a command of many languages”
Comes from Greek polu-, “many” and glotto,
“tongue”.
VB5
Don’t make fun of the first graders
{ C# }
Parkinson’s law
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for
its completion.“
Conway’s law
organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce
designs which are copies of the communication structures of these
organizations
JavaScript
Nobody is perfect
Ruby
The foundation is important, know
your languages
ML / Functional
“If you aren't in over your head, how
do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot
Knowing other languages makes
you better at other languages
Diversity Principle: “The usual
suspects tend to have the same
conversation and reach the same
conclusions.”
Peggy Holman, journalismthatmatters.net
A day of Go
Fancy Gopher, by Renée French
• Find the time
Drawbacks to being a polyglot?
Pareto’s Principle (80 – 20 Rule): “80% of output
for 20% of input”
Am I better for it?
Where to start?
Challenge
Dunning–Kruger effect: “Is a cognitive
bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their
ability much higher than is accurate.”