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There is that point, too, where you not have to look up how to formulate something in your new programming language, but can write it just down. Is that not "fl
by erikb85 17y ago
There is that point, too, where you not have to look up how to formulate something in your new programming language, but can write it just down. Is that not "fluent"?
What do you guys think about learning just one programming language or just one human language? I don't think you can be a real expert in a language, if you just a single one. First, you will not get a good feeling of what the style of your language is, if you just know this one. And second, there is stuff, you can write easy in language A but much harder in language B. There will be a point in mastering language B where you have to be able to write the same stuff, too. But you might never learn that stuff, if you never saw people doing it in language A. (pg's argument for stronger languages vs. weaker languages is some kind of subset of my second argument)
- 10ren 17y agoYou make a good point, but we can use empirical data to settle it. Look at the greatest writers in a given language. Ask if they were monolingual or not. For one instance, I (personally) am not aware of Shakespeare knowing any languages other than English; however, it may be that all educated people in that era knew Latin, and so the many great English writer so the past support your hypothesis.