Re:Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluen...
by sophacles on Saturday January 04, 2014 @02:52PM
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I think idioms are kind of hard too. The little things can get annoying quickly. For instance I frequently am told I write my java in C# (and amusingly vice versa). The idiomatic way of capitalizing is different between the two. Similarly when doing C++ stuff I tend to name things in C. And so on.
Syntax and semantics can be picked up really quickly. I could read and correctly modify code in a dozen languages. I could produce a scheme interpreter in a bunch of languages without much hassle, but if i don't pick the domain, i'm just not fluent.
I like to think i'm strongest with Java. There's a bunch of standard libraries i understand really well, but there are so many dark corners. For example, I'm aware of the existence of the x509 crypto stuff, but it would take me a while to use it correctly.