Re: OT: Programming Languages (Was: Spell Checking for Non European Languages, and for Conlangs)

Philippe Caquant writes:

> Now I have to learn PL/SQL, as I'll have to work on Oracle databases.
> Probably not too hard. But my main question is: What the hell should I
> learn 1/ to keep productive in my job; 2/ to be able to develop my own
> applications (about linguistics, one way or another), and not having
> to throw everything overboard in six months and start from zero again
> ???
If you only know one or two languages right now, you should do a survey
of as many languages as you can find.

But as long as you know data structures and algorithms, learning a new
language is not really all that big of a deal. Yes, it takes time to
learn whatever the local APIs are, but there will never be One True API
that works everywhere for everything, anyway.


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