Rich wrote: > Anyway, my question is: what experience you people have with working > with different languages at the same time?
I typically use Python, C++ and SQL. When there's been lots of Python and little C++, I tend to forget to terminate C++ statements with semicolon... Otherwise I seem to keep them apart. In general, I think Python made me a better C++ programmer. You certainly can't apply all Python ideas in C++ or vice versa. The languages have different strengths and weaknesses, and an idiom which is good in one language might be bad in the other. Still, it was with Python I learned OOP properly, and since Python doesn't get in the way as much, using Python has made it easier to develop as a systems designer and architect. SQL is certainly different enough from the other to prevent any confusion. Concerning more similar languages, such as Python, PHP and Perl, I don't really see the point of mastering several languages that are so similar. To be honest, learning Python made me never want to touch Perl again, and learning PHP felt very much like going backwards, so I didn't get beyond a very superficial understanding. I feel so much more productive with Python, and it can handle all the things PHP or Perl handles well enough. There are certainly cases were PHP would be more convenient, and a big existing base of Perl code, but I've managed to get by well with Python anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
