Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Aspect questions? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4f4a6b1d$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1330561353 13892 84.45.235.129 (1 Mar 2012 00:22:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:22:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12546 On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:25:55 +0000, Novice wrote: > I envy you for being fluent in both C and Java (and probably others!). I > have other languages but they're pretty much all very rusty from lack of > use. Mind you, I have found that I can relearn things pretty quickly > even after a long gap. I had occasion to look at a COBOL program a few > years back and found it very familiar. Mind you, I doubt I'd say the > same about C if I were to try that again ;-) > Just about all I use these days are C and Java plus a few scripting languages (awk, PHP, bash shell scripting and Perl if you insist). In another life I wrote much more COBOL than was good for me, so could probably get up to speed fast with that too. There are a raft of others I used for single projects (PL/1) or that were specific to particular hardware (TAL, PL/9, filetab, RPG III and various assemblers). I'm not sure its useful to know a lot of languages: idioms often don't transfer don't at all well and if you're not careful you can end up writing the nasty sort of code best summarized as "a Real Programmer can write FORTRAN in any language". -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |