This one time, at band camp, Jamie Honan said:
>
>> I don't know what my point is, but the key part to learning a language
>> (computer or human) is to know the concepts first, and do the
>> translation when you need to communicate your ideas.
>
>Except that your concepts are often formed by language (computer
>or natural).
Aah, yes, I forgot the boundary conditions. The key to learning a
*second* language is identifying where the concepts lie in the first
language, and applying that to the new one. Then each language you
learn after that becomes easier, because the concepts and ideas that you
are programming (speaking? I think there's a whole field of linguistics
on this) are more easily recognised.
>So blinded were some people by the then current orthodoxy (about the
>correctness of using Cobol) that one student, faced with
>the assignment of implementing a recursive descent parser, chose
>Cobol.
Ouch ;)
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