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Remembering Multiple Programming Languages?

posted by janrinok on Monday April 07 2014, @02:51PM   
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?

• Re:Literature or Math (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday April 07 2014, @04:28PM

  by VLM (445) on Monday April 07 2014, @04:28PM (#27604)

  "Some job interviews require you to sweat the small stuff"

  Invariably the kind of place that puts you thru a wringer writing a syntactically correct python implementation of a B-tree is the kind of place that wants you to write RoR CRUD apps. Not that there's anything wrong with Btrees or CRUD apps or python or ruby, its just the presence of that kind of stuff implies the actual job requirements will have nothing to do with the interview, which makes your intel gathering way harder. Its a bozosity bogosity warning indicator. Might still be a nice place to work, if only their interviewing is screwed up. But, certainly a warning sign to keep a look out.

  So ... I read my Sedgewick and my Knuth now wheres the completely unrelated job that entitles me to?

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