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?
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Monday April 07 2014, @04:39PM
My basic approach is to just remember what kind of stuff exists. Not particular syntax.
It is quite normal that I google: "python read text file", "python ternary operator", "ocaml loop", "c++ template", "mathematica conditional". Then I just look at the first example to check the right syntax and problem solved - I can go forward with coding.
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