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After a few weeks (and I believe it was written many weeks, so to me, that sounds like a couple of months), it's not unreasonable for experienced programmer wit
by serial_dev 3y ago
After a few weeks (and I believe it was written many weeks, so to me, that sounds like a couple of months), it's not unreasonable for experienced programmer with already a couple of languages in their toolbelt to expect to get _some_ things done in a new programming language.
- andrepd 3y agoI'd say one thing in your defense, it's absolutely true that the ocaml standard library is atrocious. Replace it with something like Base and you will at least stop struggling with basic stuff like simple IO.
- ReleaseCandidat 3y agoBut it isn't (just) a new programming language, it's a different way of solving problems.
- toolslive 3y agoyes: paradigm shifts are not easy.
- Lewton 3y agoAfter having learned French, German and Spanish, I spent three months learning Chinese and could not speak it fluently, what a shoddy language
- txs 3y agoMany of today's popular programming languages are variations on the same theme, leading people to think that their experience is broader than it actually is.
- _xivi 3y ago"An NFL player found that he managed to be good at rugby after 2 months of practice, but when he tried to do gymnastics (or cycling or tennis or motorsports or ...) in the same time frame, the results were terrible." What does that tell you the sports he tried to do? Not much. It's all about his previous experience and skills.