I can write Perl code in Clojure before I know how not to write Perl code in Clojure. Actually that saying goes back at least to old FORTRAN programmers from t

I can write Perl code in Clojure before I know how not to write Perl code in Clojure. Actually that saying goes back at least to old FORTRAN programmers from the 60s vs C programmers in the 70s and their ability to write recognizable FORTRAN in C (whaddya mean that in C a variable named i isn't implicitly defined as an int by its very name? and so on). Thats the pessimistic view. The optimistic view is writing A in B gives you a chance to learn B by replacing small parts of emulated A with bare metal B. Good luck when you scale up and the major architecture of the problem is different when written in A vs B, that won't be as simple as swapping out things.