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> It doesn't actually mater what language you learn first OK, start with Prolog. Now move to Ruby. Then Haskell, and include some SQL in that as well, somehow.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> It doesn't actually mater what language you learn first
OK, start with Prolog. Now move to Ruby. Then Haskell, and include some SQL in that as well, somehow.
Now write me a program in APL.
Languages within the same paradigm are mostly similar. But there are a lot of paradigms, and some concepts don't transfer well at all. (Quick, what's the equivalent of an anonymous inner class in Prolog?)
- berdario 12y agoThis! ...and moving from javascript strings to Ruby strings is far from a "30 seconds syntactical exercise", unless you don't take into account the fact that: * Ruby strings don't necessarily have all the same encoding * Javascript strings don't implement all of Ruby Strings' methods * Ruby Strings are mutable, while JS's are immutable * R̶u̶b̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶C̶h̶a̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶J̶a̶v̶a̶s̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ (edit: brain fart... I probably wrote too much Clojure[script], even if char literals in cljs just yield strings again) (Or you use Opal, which doesn't abstract Javascript Strings much)