Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

QBASIC never really took off. I spent years learning it too.

OK, to be fair it was my first language and a good way to learn. And it was later replaced by Visual Basic, then VB.NET. So it wasn't a complete waste of my time. ;)

Most of the time even if a language doesn't "take off" exactly, it's still a good learning experience that can be applied to something else.