I was able to learn Clojure in half an hour. How? Easy - I knew Scheme already, so the only thing I had to pick up was a bunch of reader macros, like [ or { or :.
I was able to learn Smalltalk in a day. It has stupidly simple syntax - one of the simplest in existence! - and there are objects everywhere - and we all just know objects, right?
That's stupid.
As I noted above, knowing a language and knowing how to use a language are two different things. To really master a language usage you have to learn and internalize a whole bunch of things, from which the language itself is the smallest bit.
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I was able to learn Clojure in half an hour. How? Easy - I knew Scheme already, so the only thing I had to pick up was a bunch of reader macros, like [ or { or :.
I was able to learn Smalltalk in a day. It has stupidly simple syntax - one of the simplest in existence! - and there are objects everywhere - and we all just know objects, right?
That's stupid.
As I noted above, knowing a language and knowing how to use a language are two different things. To really master a language usage you have to learn and internalize a whole bunch of things, from which the language itself is the smallest bit.