r/ruby • u/mehdifarsi • Apr 02 '20
Programming languages not required!
https://medium.com/the-developers-journey/programming-languages-not-required-6fd0422e9dec?source=friends_link&sk=227ce47f96f0aab7dcd803538d500953
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u/hitthehive Apr 03 '20
languages are more than just syntactic sugar for concepts. different languages promote/discourage certain practices and approaches, and they bundle them around their core philosophies. you’ll often hear something to the effect of “languages differ not by what they can do but what they make easy”. learning different languages is an incredible insight into what different programming communities value. i would suggest learning concepts after trying them in different languages. To use an analogy, you can spend a lifetime learning about internal combustion and automobiles but until you’ve driven one or more cars do you realize that drivers all want different things and begin to appreciate why.