>Would you expect to pick up the violin as if you were an expert? Rightly or wrongly, in programming we do expect this. We keep saying things like how language

>Would you expect to pick up the violin as if you were an expert? Rightly or wrongly, in programming we do expect this. We keep saying things like how languages are only tools, and how terms like "Java programmer" is as absurd as "Casio mathematician". If you have effortlessly switched between imperative OO languages many times before, it's easy to think that any language you can't quickly learn must be because it's fundamentally and abnormally difficult.