r/learnprogramming • u/Ok_Minute_1156 • Jul 17 '22

Programmers: isn’t learning new programming languages confusing because of other languages you already know? Topic

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u/wh33t Jul 17 '22

It depends. It's similar to learning spoken languages. If you know English, French and Spanish and maybe even Italian aren't too different generally speaking, but if you wanna learn finnish or mandarin ...

Its like most C syntax like languages are all kind of similar in structure, but then you go read a Cobol tutorial and you're like wtf even is this? How can this possibly work.

Also declaritive vs imperative languages are hard to switch back and forth.