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Remembering Multiple Programming Languages?

posted by janrinok on Monday April 07 2014, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-forget-more-than-I-remember dept.

Subsentient writes:

I've historically always tried to stick to one or two big languages, because as soon as I start deviating even for a week, I go back to my primaries and find that I, humiliatingly, have forgotten things that anyone else would be completely incapable of forgetting. Now, I'm going to be learning assembly, since that kind of thing falls in line with my interests, and I'm concerned about forgetting big chunks of C while I learn. I already often have the standard open in a tab constantly despite using C since 2012, so my question is, how do you guys who are fluent in multiple languages manage to remember them? Have you been using both for almost forever? Are you all just mediocre in multiple languages rather than pro in one or two?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 07 2014, @04:16PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 07 2014, @04:16PM (#27595) Homepage Journal
    It's simple, you don't. The more years you use something the more of it will indelibly stick but you always forget things. What you do your damnedest to remember is where to look to quickly refresh your memory so you can say 'duh' and get back to work.
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  • (Score: 1) by rochrist on Monday April 07 2014, @06:18PM

    by rochrist (3737) on Monday April 07 2014, @06:18PM (#27649)

    Yeah, I find that with things like programming languages, I just /can't/ remember the details that I'm not using every day. The thing is, anything like that you get back extremely quickly when you start using it again. The key is to have a few familiar references that you are familiar with.