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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/2013 02:53 PM, Ron Frazier
(ALE) wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I have never known and used more than 1 computer language at a time. What that was varied depending on the time. But, it seems to me that being fluent, and not confused, in more than 1 at a time would be very hard. I cannot really imagine being productive in Clipper, C++, and Go all at the same time, for example.</pre>
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It's possible, as long as you remember the core concept of what
you're doing. All programming comes down to is taking a problem and
expressing it (codifying it) so that the computer understands how to
work the problem.<br>
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Of course, to be fluent in multiple languages, you must be pretty
familiar with its gotchas. I'm fluent in C, C#, Vala, PHP and
Python at this point.<br>
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I've never touched Clipper or anything else in that family, though
I'm aware of the family and could write a program in it after
perhaps a day or two of reading to make sure that I learn the core
concepts and enough to know what the invariants of the environment
are.<br>
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But that's really all there is to it. A programming environment can
differ even when the same language is used. Look at JavaScript for
the canonical and most easily cited example of that; JS inside the
browser and outside of the browser are two different beasts, in
terms of what the actual environment is. The language is, however,
the same.<br>
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— Mike<br>
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