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I'm not even talking about the little languages that just come in and out of fashion all the time. If you know c++ you could basically roll right into C#, Java
by pfisch 13y ago
I'm not even talking about the little languages that just come in and out of fashion all the time.
If you know c++ you could basically roll right into C#, Java, PHP, etc in under a week and be doing real work in them. Maybe you wouldn't have the intricacies down immediately but you could be doing production code level work very quickly.
- ics 13y agoThat may be true for many languages, but if those people never roll into that sort of situation it's probably fair to still call them programmers.
- bandushrew 13y agoYou could, but I wouldn't recommend it. Learning a new language, say C++ -> Java is WAY more than just learning the syntax. There are best practices for solving certain kinds of problems in each language that differ between language. Sure, there is a high level similarity between the solutions (hey, its just the observer pattern, right?), but there are also likely (IME) to be many critical differences in the details.
- EliRivers 13y agoYou could probably write C++ code in C#, Java and PHP, but it would be hideous. I've seen Fortran written in C, and Pascal written in C++, and C written in Java, and it's generally an unholy mess.