I've found the opposite to be true. Knowing how I would solve a problem in more than one language has made a number of things easier over the years. Heck, if yo

I've found the opposite to be true. Knowing how I would solve a problem in more than one language has made a number of things easier over the years. Heck, if you look at Symfony's (a php framework) Validation API https://symfony.com/doc/current/validation.html https://symfony.com/doc/current/validation.html they are implementing a Java JSR ( https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303 https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303 ) using PHP constructs. Ideas can cross pollinate between languages, but not everything translates well.