On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:07 AM Nightwatch RenBand <johnmattson...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I totally agree with Bob Bridges. It can be boiled down to "all
> programming languages do the same things, just in, of ten, slightly
> different ways." Learn one, and you have a head start to learning any of
> them.
>
Unless your mind is permanently destroyed by first learning APL {grin}. Or
any of the LISP derived languages. Or maybe even Smalltalk or "functional"
languages where variable don't (they are basically write-once-read-many).
> Best thing I learned: Virtually all programs come down to Input, Process,
> Output.
>
True. Which is why many (experienced?) programmers, at least at first, have
some problems with SQL and thinking in "sets".
--
People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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