Blogging Ottinger (tim)multi language madness
Wanna go nuts? Switch back and forth between java, C#, C++, Ruby, and Python. Read articles, write stuff, try to go and work normally.
It was much more pleasant, by the way, to switch from statically-typed languages to dynamic ones than it is to go the other way. Switching to static languages is very frustrating because of the loss in fluidity. You can create and dissolve lists, tuples, structures, and hash tables so easily in python and ruby, and loops make so much sense. Then you have to do looping in C# or C++ and the syntax gets back into the way. Or you want to return more than one value from a function, and it becomes tedious because of out parameters and the like.
Well, anyway, my original intent was to grouse about how knowing a lot of languages and how crazy it is to keep them separate when you are programming.
yer nuts man. Go to work.
Comment by George — 2006-February-17 @ 11:21