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Have you ever experienced a boost in productivity by switching to a different programming language?

19th March 2014

My answer to Have you ever experienced a boost in productivity by switching to a different programming language? on Quora

Switching from PHP to Python (over a decade ago now) dramatically improved my productivity as a programmer.

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