Sounds like you got a lot of exposure to Erlang, and got a fresh perspective from diving in...which is fantastic! Reminds me of when I bought a book on Ruby on Rails at a time when all I had done professionally was ColdFusion. I didn't realized how limited I was until I saw such a different way of doing things.
However, I do think it's important to cover your bases if you are interested in deeply learning a subject. I spent years writing JavaScript before I really grokked closures. I'm not sorry about that path, but I could have spared myself some mysteries if I had followed a more "Progressive Advancement" type path.
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Sounds like you got a lot of exposure to Erlang, and got a fresh perspective from diving in...which is fantastic! Reminds me of when I bought a book on Ruby on Rails at a time when all I had done professionally was ColdFusion. I didn't realized how limited I was until I saw such a different way of doing things.
However, I do think it's important to cover your bases if you are interested in deeply learning a subject. I spent years writing JavaScript before I really grokked closures. I'm not sorry about that path, but I could have spared myself some mysteries if I had followed a more "Progressive Advancement" type path.