What does the phrase "learn not the language, learn the technology" mean?

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Dmitry2015-06-20 20:03:47

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Dmitry, 2015-06-20 20:03:47

What does the phrase "learn not the language, learn the technology" mean? I'm programming in c#, i.e. I need to learn not c#, but .net? And what other popular technologies are there?

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bromzh, 2015-06-20
@bromzh

Just a language without an ecosystem is worth nothing. So in spite of that. that Lisp, OCaml, Haskell, for example, have a bunch of cool features, everyone writes in "primitive" Java, because the number of libraries, frameworks and technologies for it is huge. If there was no JavaEE with Spring, then its popularity would be many times less. Ruby became popular because of RoR (at that time it was really something new).
Technology is more universal, languages are secondary, it's just a tool.

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Sergey Krasnodemsky, 2015-06-20
@Prognosticator

Taken out of context, in my opinion, throw a link where you met this phrase.

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cthulhudx, 2015-06-21
@cthulhudx

"You need to write not in the language, but with its use" (c) Steve McConnell

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Elizaveta Borisova, 2015-06-20
@Elizaveta

The device of this platform, its features, ways to solve standard problems in it.
patterns, oops rather out of technology

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Tsiren Naimanov, 2015-06-20
@ImmortalCAT

technology is most likely OOP in a particular language,
as well as design patterns - they are common to all languages

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Odissey Nemo, 2015-07-02
@odissey_nemo

Perhaps this was also meant:
"Knowledge of some principles easily compensates for ignorance of some facts." Claude Helvetius.