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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by aur09 on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:42AM (#20856815)
100% agreed. You can write C-style code in JavaScript, but it won't be idiomatic C and it won't be idiomatic js.

Syntax is a very minor piece of the programming language pie. If Python, Haskell, and Rust all shared the same syntax an expert Python programmer would still have a hell of a time getting anything done in either of the other two languages.

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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by flukus on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:11AM (#20857101)
Discovering the differences between languages is all part of the learning process If you can start off with "this is how I would do it in C" and try that in JavaScript you'll speed up your learning by focusing on what features are unique/different in JavaScript. Ultimately they have more in common than they differ.
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