Comfort Zones

Bjarne Stroustrup says in a recent interview with devx (on page 2):

I object to the “Joe Coder” moniker. At best, it is patronizing. Realistically we are all “Joe Coder” outside our little comfort zones. Modern software is far too complex for a single person to be more than a novice in most aspects. I’m “Joe Coder” most of the time, and so are you.

How true!

Looking back, my “comfort zones” have been so far (in chronological order):

• Basic (Spectrum, QL)
• Turbo Pascal
• dBase/Clipper
• Delphi (for a looong time)
• ASP+VBScript
• ASP.Net+C#+TSQL (current)

(TSQL took me quite some time to feel comfortable, and it really is not as comfortable as C#)

150th post, so nothing technical today 😉