I learned Pascal in highschool in 89 or 90 (AP Computer Science) and don't remember anything (about the language) except that print was called writeline and the assignment operator was:=
But, I used what I leared there to teach myself qbasic (I know, a step backward probably) and since then I have become a decent but not awesome PHP programmer. (I began working in HTML and PHP without even understanding the difference between GET and POST, I've come a long way.) I had to work on a Perl script once, and found that it's just a matter of adapting to syntax. Sure, I have to Google a function name here and there, but if I had a job where all I did was code 8 (or 10) hours a day, I'd pick them up in a short time.
Stay (or get) current in developing techniques, and float to whatever language you need.
(My biggest challenge, being limited to High School and self teaching, is making the logical leap from procedural to OOP.)
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Language is largely irrelevant...
I have to agree.
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I learned Pascal in highschool in 89 or 90 (AP Computer Science) and don't remember anything (about the language) except that print was called writeline and the assignment operator was
But, I used what I leared there to teach myself qbasic (I know, a step backward probably) and since then I have become a decent but not awesome PHP programmer. (I began working in HTML and PHP without even understanding the difference between GET and POST, I've come a long way.) I had to work on a Perl script once, and found that it's just a matter of adapting to syntax. Sure, I have to Google a function name here and there, but if I had a job where all I did was code 8 (or 10) hours a day, I'd pick them up in a short time.
Stay (or get) current in developing techniques, and float to whatever language you need.
(My biggest challenge, being limited to High School and self teaching, is making the logical leap from procedural to OOP.)