On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:35:31 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
                   wrote:
> On 30/04/2018 14:16, Rob Morley wrote:
>>   He can't accept that the
>> world and its technology has moved on, because his brain is stuck in
>> that mode,
>
> There's no call for gratuitous rudeness, OM.
>
>
>> I admit that I had problems getting my head around Java when I had
>> previously mainly programmed in C (and didn't like C++ at all -
>> Smalltalk was good though, and ADA's not bad for an old chick).  But
>> then I had difficulty with Fortran when I had previously only used Basic
>> (where are the line numbers???). You adapt and learn to use appropriate
>> tools, you don't unplug an angle grinder and try to use it as a file.
>
> I've never experienced any difficulty moving from one language to
> another and professionally have dealt with most of the common
> ones in my time; this comes from having a very good grounding
> at the low level because then you can picture how the language
> with which you deal maps into machine code. Perhaps I could help you
> with your expressed difficulty?

Really? That is worth exploring.  How does SQL map into machine code?
How does Prolog? Erlang? Haskell?

> FORTRAN, BASIC, RTL/2, CORAL, PL/M-86, PASCAL, C (many times over),
> C++, FORTH, many assemblers

All pretty old stuff. All pretty much imperative based too.

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