> Programming in a language involves limiting thoughts and implementations to only constructs that the language directly supports. However, programming into a l

> Programming in a language involves limiting thoughts and implementations to only constructs that the language directly supports. However, programming into a language involves finding the solution they want to do, and then determining how to express those thoughts in the language. Learning how to program involves learning to think like a computer, and seeing the world in terms of loops and filters and manipulations. Mastering a specific programming language takes that one step further, because you become so familiar with it that you start thinking in terms of the specific constructs and the idiom that it offers. The speed gains are enormous once your brain adapts to that way of thinking, and I wouldn't give that up for anything. I appreciate the sentiment – be a programmer, not the master of one specific way of programming – but I think there are better ways to achieve that goal than by programming "into" a language. The Pragmatic Programmer credo, for example, to learn a new language ever year, is much more appealing.