Survey Results - Why would you say "no" to learning a new technology?

Precisely!

Mature view is probably right, as I am getting up there in age. There is lots of neat frameworks and technologies out there, unfortunately, you can only go so far financially in software development and I am approaching that ceiling; thus my interests have swayed to financials and investing.

Wouldn't be Forex by chance?

Jeremy Falcon

No currencies, just stocks.

Could not agree more with your opinion.

Agree, i am 33 years old man, and i have 10 years development experience on my career.
Learning new things is depend on the career.

Did anyone rememeber Microsoft Dynamic Data, Silverlight, Expression Blend tool?
There is dead and no company needs it any more.

or modern technology like WPF, WCF... on my country it is very less company to use.

I stay on winform, webform, mvc, jquery, it really out dated compare to young peoples.

But i rather to study some project management knowledge.

As same as dozen PHP framework today, many developer relay to them, but we don't know which one will lose support next year.

I never said "No" but no time to learn. Fortunately recent period I'm getting some

thatraja

Code converters | Education Needed | Improve Everything^New

Before wasting your time learning something, you should learn from the past. Otherwise you are doomed to repeat the mistakes.

So, by all means:
Interpreters are great. Who cares about performance. Who cares about memory.

Who needs type safety or object orientation?

Who needs debuggers, profilers and all those other tools? Debugging is much more fun if you do it like we used to on a C64:

235870 PRINT "X = " + X
235880 IF X <> 5784565824 THEN GOTO HELL

Who needs new languages, frameworks and approaches every five minutes? How about letting those we already have mature?

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here

This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.

"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."

Option	Votes	%
No time to learn it	898	51.31
It looked too difficult	176	10.06
Couldn't summon the motivation to learn it	597	34.11
It didn't seem different enough to bother learning	450	25.71
You'd seen it before in another life and knew it wouldn't last	399	22.80
No job opportunities	311	17.77
Your boss said no	133	7.60
Other	236	13.49
Responses	1,750
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%