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[dave at cca.org]

mrbill at mrbill.net writes:

>The "hardest" part of becoming a "programmer" is learning the *concepts* -
>everything after that (different languages) is just learning different
>syntax to do the same thing.

Yes and no.

I would argue that the concepts are different between the major
branches of languages (the Algol family, the Lisp family, stack
languages, and weirdo AI languages).

Learning to program in C certainly makes picking up Fortran,
Pascal, or Java easy, but it's not going to help you understand
Scheme very much.

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