15 Oct
2008
15 Oct
'08
2:49 p.m.
leaders and pioneers: "if you know one language, picking up others should be easy, they just differ in syntax". I have heard it, and I used to believe it. Now I think it's only true provided the one language you know is suitably advanced (and currently non-existent, I think).
It all depends on what you consider as "knowing a language". After all, a Real Programmer can write Fortran in any programming language, Stefan