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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by wwweston on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:05AM (#19653396)
Spanish and Portuguese seem to be unusually close. Studying one helps me with the other.

Portuguese and Japanese on the other hand...

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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by pushpop on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:38AM (#19653591)
The OP wasn’t talking about Japanese. They were talking about European languages- many of which share a common heritage
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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by saagarjha on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:31PM (#19656725)
Not all of them do, but the ones mentioned were all very similar Romance languages.
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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by pushpop on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:19AM (#19657876)
I’m aware not al of them do. This is why I said “many” and not “all”.

There are roughly 3 main groups of European languages: Italic (or Romance as you described it) for Western Europe, Germanic which is predominantly Central Europe, Scandinavian countries and the UK; and Balto-Slavic for Eastern Europe. Generally speaking of course.

However there is still a fair amount of cross pollination even with the Germanic and Italic languages, not to mention shared characteristics (not least of all a shared alphabet) that doesn’t exist with Japonic languages such as, well, Japanese.

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