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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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Remembering Multiple Programming Languages?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Monday April 07 2014, @08:10PM
Was going to post at root, but you voiced my thoughts. I started professionally in the early 80's, but cut my teeth back in college with a professor who's focus was not on a specific language, but on the concepts of language. He taught taht once you could find these foundations, the language then broke down into syntax and semantics. I know i have forgotten more then I learned for my business career toke me through COBOL, Pascal, RPG II, (c RatFor in college), IBM JCL, then the big switch to client server and Basic, .net stuff, and more currently Javascript, and Java.
When I've interviewed I have tried to put across that it is not so important being an "expert" in a language these days, ffs they change so much now, but it is more important how to design good code, to listen to client requests, to think. Before Google I had a lot of books. These days Google puts at my finger tips the specifics I need for an idea or concept I already know. Maybe that makes me a hack, don't care. I am good at what I do and I enjoy it (to some degree). WHat IT and languages will be in the next 10 years who knows. I'd rather be caring of horses by then and not worry any more about staying current on a language that will be replaced.
The more things change, the more they look the same