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Re:Ask HN: What does it mean to learn a new programming lang... by AlchemistCamp on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:00AM (#30802250)
It only works if you're moving to more powerful languages.

You can write Fortran-style code in Ruby, but you definitely can't write Ruby-style code in Fortran. It just doesn't have powerful enough of abstractions.

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