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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 VLM on Monday April 07 2014, @04:39PM
"Learning Perl is no fun either"
FYI 2014 edition of "modern perl" just released.
The 2012 edition feels like my first copy of K+R back in the mid 80s, how did they put so much information into so few well designed pages? Its got everything needed, yet so few pages. Its not a "paid by the page" 1000 page textbook.
The worst part of learn-by-google is you often pull up some tutorial last touched in '96 about perl 4.0 and then get some very peculiar ideas about what modern Perl development looks like.
The second worst problem is people think its funny to talk about dumb ideas. Google will find lots of blog posts along the lines of
goal: implement OO myself in Perl without using MOOSE, for the sheer heck of it.
result: sucks like the festering dung of 1000 camels so I'm going back to visual basic
Then noob finds that via google and becomes terrified, while old guru sees it and merely says "use Moose;"
(Score: 2) by sl4shd0rk on Monday April 07 2014, @09:32PM
Very good point on the learn-by-google approach. I would not recommend it as a starting point for the very reasons you point out. A good book is, imho, still the best way to get up to speed in a reasonable amount of time. Typically, publishing companies have some decent talent behind the technical editing.