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Which languages have you studied? What makes you say that?

• loup-vaillant 14y ago
  If I had to guess, I would say that many programmers first learn one language at the university. It's hard, because it's their first one. Then they learn C++. It's hard because it's C++. From that, they infer that languages are complex, difficult to learn, and maybe impossible to implement. This is true of languages that desperately try to be the proverbial hammer. That's why we call them "general purpose". On the other hand, more specialized languages are often much easier to handle: Of the top of my head, I can think of Make, Lua, and OMeta. I learned the basics of make in a few days. I'm currently using Lua for the first time, to re-implement OMeta, which I learned in a couple days. It looks like basic Lua proficiency will take about a week of practice (during my spare time).