I had 3 recruiters call me. I've been out of work close to a year!😢 So I learned Go in the interim

Learning Go is a good idea!

I'm trying to convert some of my old code to Go

Good practise

That's how I learn any language. I tried typescript 3 months ago also with help debugging with chatGPT

A lot of CFMLers could take a page out of your book. It's really helpful in one's approach to work to know more than one language and see the differences and similarities and tricks & tactics etc.

Well I prefer cfml, but for 2 decades I've been doing Javascript and php

The Pragmatic Programmer book suggests trying to learn a new programming language every year. I think that's a real stretch but I've generally learned a new programming language every couple of years on average -- and I highly recommend the practice as a way to learn new ideas (as well as potentially make yourself more employable!).

So you think x86 asm is too much?

Learning assembler of any stripe is always worthwhile to get a better understanding of how things work behind the scenes... ...I started with 8080 and 6502 back in the day 🙂 but did a lot of IBM assembler in an early job, then SPARC and Motorola stuff -- and wrote a 68881/2 math library at one point.

First programming I did was direct Z80 byte code, written to flash ROM by a homemade thing with hex rotary switches for input, that was either a semi-smart EPROM writer or a really dumb development system. Uphill both ways. Good times.

I learned 8080 assebler when I wa a lad. I learned commodore 6502 assembly when i was 12.The ladies didn't pay attention to me then. 😞

Yeah I hear you, CF is so much more sexier 😉

I still have my copy of https://www.amazon.com/Programming-6502-Rodnay-Zaks/dp/0895880466 close on hand 🙂

Well I got married in 97 right when I discovered cf! 🫠

I was offered a job writing assembly language for the B-2 bomber. At first I was psyched because I've enjoyed writing assembly. But they made it sound like that's all you would be doing for the foreseeable future and that sounded pretty boring, so I passed.

I am so I'm impressed by you assembler guys

Bah! If you can learn one language you can learn almost any language, including assembly. Except Prolog. Prolog is weird.

It's not just learning it. It's the implementation of it . Prolog, is that like algol?

It's a series of logical statements, but it's kind of like matrices if you've ever had that class. At first it seems really simple but in the blink of an eye it becomes incredibly complex. Or maybe that's just me. Anyone? Anyone?

That sounds like haskell

Prolog is awesome -- I did Prolog at university and then worked at an actuarial firm that built large predictive mortality models using Prolog! 🙂 As the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book says: Prolog is like a two-year old child: if you get anything wrong in your questions, it just says 'No!' I highly recommend that book BTW. It walks you through the basics of seven very different languages and you'll learn a lot about different ways to solve problems. There's also Seven More Languages, Seven Databases, and Seven Web Frameworks I think...

I have them both but haven't got thru them yet