Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also notice I forget one language after doing another for a few weeks. And > it's not just brackets and semicolons -- I also try to use one language's > idioms in the other. People who /claim/ they have no trouble switching > languages seem to have the same problem.
I don't find it a problem as long as the languages are simple and well-separated. Python and C are a good example: each is simple, and each is pretty well-focused -- high-level vs low-level. It's not necessarily easy if you're continuously going back and forth between C++ and Java, for example -- in such a case, it seems to me that transitioning into the proper mindset for each language may well be a nonzero effort, since the languages aren't really all that simple, and they have quite some overlap despite all the differences. I have no experience with such switching between (say) Ruby and Python -- both simple but vastly overlapping in scope. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
