| ▲ | JSR_FDED 7 hours ago | |
The opinion of coworkers is not a factor - but I have a friend who says that he has to relearn Perl every time he needs to use it. Do you have to use it every day to maintain fluency? | ||
| ▲ | spudlyo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
It doesn't take too long to get back into the swing of things. After a while, if you learn enough programming languages, they all tend to meld together in your brain, and the cost of switching isn't too disruptive. You know what you want to do, it's just the details that temporarily get in your way. | ||
| ▲ | hn_acc1 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yeah, as someone who occasionally had to hack on perl scripts - and I mean, maybe add/modify a hundred lines to add a new feature, then nothing for a few months, I found this too. Stop doing it for a while, and I had to relearn it all over. I'd probably have an easier time getting back into REXX that I last used in 1992 or something.. | ||