At risk of joining a buried tangental thread, I don't think it is a good analogy. Anecdote: In my software flight sim experience (I know I am not a pilot), I'v

At risk of joining a buried tangental thread, I don't think it is a good analogy. Anecdote: In my software flight sim experience (I know I am not a pilot), I've had a better initial success rate with the heavier planes than I have with the light ones. Did I fluke it? Probably. But then again, I've learned some tricks on a bicycle that are widely seen as more difficult to learn than learning to ride a bike but I don't think they were that hard to learn in hindsight. Anyway, we are so into hypothetical territory now that I'm not going to further embarrass myself with more comment on this. Is learning two or three new programming languages for a programmer harder than learning a single new programming language as a novice?