> The point is to not always expect people to conform to you and limit > yourself that way, for no other reason than "practicality". I speak > French, German, English and Danish. This allows me to quickly draw >
Im guessing that your family is Danish and because you mentioned German, theres a reasonable chance they live close to the border and might even be german themselves. From the Danish people i have met many learn English simply because of the ubiquity of American and English popular culture, so learning all three languages was almost automatic and part of growing up - it just happened. > parallels and infer subtleties, as there are often no 1:1 mapping > between two language terms or expressions. This is much that same in > programming languages where you may need to express yourself a certain > way, sometimes you need a pattern, other times you are offered a first > class language construct - but if you know only one language you rob > yourself of the chance to these "other dimensions". This comes back to > Steve McConnell quote, "Program *into* a language, not in it". > > Your last line is exactly what my response was about. Scientists dont worry about what language or notations etc their material is in, nor do they constantly strive to reinvent new means to express their work. Firstly let me qualify what im going on about - basically i have no clue how nuclear rocket anti gravity scientists do their thing so im merely making statements from my simplistic experience. Chemistry for example im pretty sure its safe to say has been writing down chemical formulas like water as h2O, the same way for a long time. They could come up w/ a better way there almost always is especially for really long and complex formulas but they worry about solving problems w./ their legacy in this case the old and familiar way to write formulas, past equipment etc - it all comes to gether to let the scientist get their job done. They dont start from scratch and reinvent half the basics just because they can, they get into deeper things by leveraging legacy a bit like Java. By using java i can reuse more libraries than on other platforms or languages because its a better fit. > /Casper > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- mP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
