<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"leam hall" <leamhall@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:37:34 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] Programming and preferred languages?<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">I've coded in a few languages and have a couple I really enjoy. However, they don't tend to fall in the "lots of jobs" or "direct tie to Linux" category. The idea I've had so far is to pick a language I really enjoy and learn things like OOP, TDD, refactoring, etc. <br><div>Not sure this is a good path though. I'm not young and am still trying to move from Linux admin to coder type of guy. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Forgot on OOP. I don't like to do copy and paste so almost all my work is OOP. Anytime I see myself reusing code I either push it to one of our existing modules or create a new one. It depends on the context of that code.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I do this almost every day so as I get better I refactor too. Mostly my own code. :)</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>