[Haskell-cafe] Re: What I wish someone had told me...

[Stefan Monnier]

>> leaders and pioneers: "if you know one language, picking up others
>> should be easy, they just differ in syntax".
> I have heard it, and I used to believe it.  Now I think it's only true
> provided the one language you know is suitably advanced (and currently
> non-existent, I think).

It all depends on what you consider as "knowing a language".
After all, a Real Programmer can write Fortran in any programming language,


        Stefan