> My years of installing Novell Netware 2.15 off 360k floppies just aren't relevant to the MVC web coding I do today.
The deep and abiding irony of your post is that MVC was invented in the 1970's for Smalltalk.
> One could argue that listing 100 languages shows the skill to learn new languages but nothing shows that better than being an expert at a modern language.
Unless by "modern language" you mean Idris or Agda or the like, you're barking up the wrong tree.
> This is actually a good analogy, but says the opposite of what you think it does. If I had an old out of date car, I'd want the veteran mechanic to work on it. If I had a modern car run by computer chips, I'd want the guy fresh out of school.
The more appropriate analogy in reference to Ruby/Python/JS/etc is that you bring a 1980's Chevette into the shop on top of which you've glued the sheetmetal from a late-model Aveo.
The deep and abiding irony of your post is that MVC was invented in the 1970's for Smalltalk.
> One could argue that listing 100 languages shows the skill to learn new languages but nothing shows that better than being an expert at a modern language.
Unless by "modern language" you mean Idris or Agda or the like, you're barking up the wrong tree.
> This is actually a good analogy, but says the opposite of what you think it does. If I had an old out of date car, I'd want the veteran mechanic to work on it. If I had a modern car run by computer chips, I'd want the guy fresh out of school.
The more appropriate analogy in reference to Ruby/Python/JS/etc is that you bring a 1980's Chevette into the shop on top of which you've glued the sheetmetal from a late-model Aveo.