Actually, at CERN where I worked for some time, they used to say that you can write Fortran in any language. :)
"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i9j6gm$1uk...@digitalmars.com... > Rainer Deyke wrote: >> That depends on the language, I think. C++ takes years to learn. >> Python took me one month to reach full fluency. There may still be >> obscure corners of Python that I haven't explored, but they so obscure >> that I'm unlikely to ever encounter them in normal programming. They >> don't matter. > > I've found when I learn a new language, I write it in the style of the > previous language I used, i.e. writing Fortran in C, writing C in C++, > etc. It takes a while for the idiomatic usage of the language to creep in. > Until then, one hasn't mastered it. > > Oh, and the evidence is it takes 10 years to master C++. That's a pretty > hefty investment.