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Living in both? Certainly not. However I would advocate visiting Scotland if you’re English. It’s a beautiful country. Likewise nobody says you need to be a f
by pushpop 8y ago
Living in both? Certainly not. However I would advocate visiting Scotland if you’re English. It’s a beautiful country.
Likewise nobody says you need to be a full time developer in every language to get benefit from learning them.
- frou_dh 8y agoThe original comment that is evidently so objectionable mentioned keeping a language (and by implication its libraries) in one's head. It's a known fact that this type of knowledge is use-it-or-lose-it. So drawing on it only occasionally is terribly suboptimal.
- pushpop 8y agoI’ve not found that to be the case even after learning probably close on two dozen different languages. I won’t deny that there is a short upskilling time where you need a quick refresher but that’s no different to picking up old code you’ve not touched in a while in a language you do use regularly. In fact often the time you spend familiarising yourself with an existing codebase or new API also serves as a catch up for the language too. That said, I have personally found that it gets easier the more languages you learn because you get good at spotting similarities. Much like with spoken languages: people who are multilingual adapt to new languages quicker because they spot patterns to stuff they’ve learned previously.