On 2013-02-23, 15:51 GMT, Chris Angelico wrote: > When you learn your first language, you think you're learning to > program, but that's not really accurate. Once you've learned half a > dozen, you begin to understand something of the art of coding as > distinct from any particular language; after that, you can learn any > language fairly easily.
And then you find out that to be REALLY good in one language, you have to focus on one language, because otherwise you are writing in some kind of mishmash. The point is that you don’t need to know any language but to at home in the whole universe of libraries, idioms, patterns, etc. and if you can manage to be REALLY at home in more than one (or let’s say two) universes, you are better than most (professional programmers) I know. Shakespeare wasn’t good in writing German poetry, as far as I know. Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list