Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays
by fvt on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:58AM
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IMHO learning about a new language (without becoming proficient with it) is always good as it makes you think about the one(s) you're proficient with.
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Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays
by klibertp on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @06:54AM
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> learning about a new language (without becoming proficient with it)
Mostly true, but there are languages which are completely useless without becoming proficient with them. In my experience Forth and J are such languages: you can "learn about" them, but you won't really understand them without using them for some time. So I suspect APL, K, Q and Eli here are similar; the question is what will I gain from becoming proficient with one of them or alternatively is it worth becoming proficient in one of them if I'm already proficient with another.