Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by deboflo on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:46AM
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The more languages you learn, the more you realize they have more in common than not. At some point it’s time to stop learning 20+ languages and start building stuff. I never said to stop learning, but be very careful what you spend your time learning. If you can be world class at Python alone, able to solve just about any problem with it, it’s better than 100% knowing many languages. Knowing a language doesn’t mean you know all of the standard libraries and third party libraries, much less solve challenging problems efficiently.
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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by hk__2 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:23PM
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> The more languages you learn, the more you realize they have more in common than not.
That happens if you learn many similar languages, which is a waste of time. You have to learn languages in different paradigms to learn new things and discover languages that have nothing in common.
> At some point it’s time to stop learning 20+ languages and start building stuff.
You can’t learn a language without building stuff.
Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
by deboflo on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:04AM
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“You can’t learn a language without building stuff” <—- the title of this post implies not only that you can, but should. I believe it’s a waste to learn without hope of applying what’s been learned. I’m learning TLA+ right now because I plan on using it to build more robust systems.