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Your hyperbolic comment is not far from reality when applied correctly. I've long said, and would stand by: Programming/Development is logic; learn logic. Lang
by wrayjustin 3y ago
Your hyperbolic comment is not far from reality when applied correctly.
I've long said, and would stand by: Programming/Development is logic; learn logic. Languages are just syntax; if you understand logic, you _can_ learn the syntax.
Taking concepts from one language to another shouldn't be an onerous task.
Of course, none of that means you'll get that _senior_ language -focused position, or any particular position at all.
But let's not act like picking up a new language, for a developer, is the equivalent of switching from development to medical practices, or even networking/system administration/etc.
- scarface_74 3y agoThe first language I used professionally was C and I programmed console apps on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes. All I really needed to know was standard C. Guess how long the learning curve was at my next job where I had the learn the intricacies of Win32/MFC, COM and DCOM, when to use which of the 8 different methods that Microsoft had of defining a string and how to safely convert between them, why my C++/ATL COM object kept crashing the other developers VB apps because I wasn’t doing reference counters correctly…