My journey in

becoming a

polyglot

@TBOHNENJNR

What is a polyglot

“A Person who speaks many langauges”

“Having a command of many languages”

Comes from Greek polu-, “many” and glotto,

“tongue”.

VB5

Don’t make fun of the first graders

{ C# }

Parkinson’s law

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for

its completion.“

Conway’s law

organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce

designs which are copies of the communication structures of these

organizations

JavaScript

Nobody is perfect

Ruby

The foundation is important, know

your languages

ML / Functional

“If you aren't in over your head, how

do you know how tall you are?”

― T.S. Eliot

Knowing other languages makes

you better at other languages

Diversity Principle: “The usual

suspects tend to have the same

conversation and reach the same

conclusions.”

Peggy Holman, journalismthatmatters.net

A day of Go

Fancy Gopher, by Renée French

• Find the time

Drawbacks to being a polyglot?

Pareto’s Principle (80 – 20 Rule): “80% of output

for 20% of input”

Am I better for it?

Where to start?

Challenge

Dunning–Kruger effect: “Is a cognitive

bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer

from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their

ability much higher than is accurate.”