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| gogodr wrote: | | with learning programming you should learn to learn programming. |
This is a fairly broken sentence to begin with, but, there is no general 'learn programming'. There is no manual or set of standards that all languages follow or conform to, to be a basis as a central learning curve. Each language has its own syntax, its own method of handling everything it does, its own method of interacting with the system it runs on, etc. which is not something you can learn as a generic thing and use in every language.
| gogodr wrote: | once you know how to program it is easy to search documentation and learn your way into any language.
at least that's what I was taught in university. |
Getting accustom to a language then moving into other languages similar to it are easy to pick up, sure, but you still have a lot to learn in the new language regardless of how skilled you were in the previous on you left. Searching documentation doesn't require a background in anything. Anyone could read a manual, or documentation, and get a general understanding of what they are reading.
| gogodr wrote: | | and if you notice, all that languages you posted are pretty similar. |
That was part of my point. While the basis to write out to the user followed a similar pattern of some form of 'print', the setup of the code, inclusion of extra files, requirement of extra calls or setup, and so on are different. Not to mention I didn't include how to compile any of those which is entirely different for all of the languages I posted. Which is not something you can learn from one language and use in another.
I'm not disagreeing that you can't move from one language to another easily, it is just how you worded your first response that you made it seem as if one language teaches you all of them.
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