The Next Big Language

[Paulo Pinto]

Actually, at CERN where I worked for some time, they used to say that you
can write Fortran in any language. :)

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> That depends on the language, I think.  C++ takes years to learn.
>> Python took me one month to reach full fluency.  There may still be
>> obscure corners of Python that I haven't explored, but they so obscure
>> that I'm unlikely to ever encounter them in normal programming.  They
>> don't matter.
>
> I've found when I learn a new language, I write it in the style of the 
> previous language I used, i.e. writing Fortran in C, writing C in C++, 
> etc. It takes a while for the idiomatic usage of the language to creep in. 
> Until then, one hasn't mastered it.
>
> Oh, and the evidence is it takes 10 years to master C++. That's a pretty 
> hefty investment.