IRL: On Natural and Artificial Languages

Author: jes_lawson

Date: May 13, 2004

by jes_lawson
5-13-04
It's ironic and annoying that I spent so much time learning QBasic for it to become obsolete.
If you can learn the common root concepts behind certain families of programming langauges, you can learn most of them.
So...if I can learn OOP, for example, I could learn C++ and Java?
Exactly. It's like...knowing Latin and so, being able to pick up French and Italian more quickly.
So what about Visual Basic?
URGH! PC Glaswegian! It's only good for writing lager drinking programs, starting resource conflicts and asking for 20p for the serial bus!