[ale] Any language (wuz: Assembly Language?)

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/27/2013 02:53 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

     --- Mike

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