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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by crimsonalucard on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:10AM (#23057404)
That's because you haven't stepped outside of the box. Most of the programming languages you learn are derived from Algol. So JAVA, C, C++, python, javascript are all essentially permutations of the same thing.

There's other families of languages like Prolog, ML and lisp that are drastically different and I have found that many people find these languages hard to learn.

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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by mettamage on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:18AM (#23057428)
While you might be right, I've seen the same comments about people who did a thorough functional programming class and then having to learn another functional programming language later on.

Moreover, you don't know if the parent also did functional programming.

But I think your remark is a fair one, I think it's about wrapping your head around programming paradigms that are quite far from each other.

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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by em500 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:40AM (#23057513)
Here's Peter Norvig's advice about different paradigms:

Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).

(https://norvig.com/21-days.html)

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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by crimsonalucard on Sunday May 03, 2020 @06:11AM (#23058067)
I wasn't just talking about functional. Prolog is a different paradigm all together.
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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by vidanay on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:09AM (#23058775)
This could probably be extrapolated further to say all programming on von Neumann architecture is fundamentally similar.
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Re:Why is it difficult for developers to learn another progr... by crimsonalucard on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:12AM (#23059447)
Actually no it can't. That be like extrapolating all expressions of language are fundamentally similar.
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