On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 04:18:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Oh, it's definitely useful for optimizations. It just doesn't work with a couple of idioms that some programmers like to use in order to optimize their code.
Perhaps bad practices and styles hard-coded in their psyche due to limitations and issues with the other language?
If there's something that gets in the way with what's made sense to you; You'll either try to figure it out (manual and forums) or backtrack to what you do understand and perhaps get even more stuck than before.
I was in the military for a time; In Basic Training they told us 'forget everything (you think) you know about firing your rifle'. They taught you from scratch how they wanted you to do it. In programming there's no real 'from scratch' after you're used to it a certain set of ways, and relearning something that already makes sense to you makes you unconsciously skip things you otherwise wouldn't.
