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Article #5876Re: Languages in the the REAL world -- Listing
From: Kenneth Walker
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1988 00:30
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1988 00:30
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In article <4950001@hpiacla.HP.COM>, scottg@hpiacla.HP.COM (Scott Gulland) writes: > > So although a week may be a little short, a competent software > engineer should be able to become good-and-fluent in ANY new language > in less than 6 weeks with most learned in 1-3 weeks. Not ANY new language. A person can be a competent software engineer and only know languages like Fortran, Pascal, and C. A person who has programmed only in such languages for several years may find it very difficult to master languages like PROLOG and Icon, that have fundamentally different underlying paradyms. While it is true that such a person can quickly learn to use Icon because it allows them to almost ignore the underlying goal-directed evaluation, that is not being "good-and-fluent" in the language. PROLOG, however, **requires** thinking about problems in a very different manner.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!ig!arizona!kwalker From: kwalker@arizona.edu (Kenneth Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Languages in the the REAL world -- Listing Message-ID: <7974@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 19 Nov 88 00:30:28 GMT References: <325@lafcol.UUCP> <4950001@hpiacla.HP.COM> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 15