Desperate curiosity and masochism.

This post was edited by rockonkenshin on Oct 3 2009 07:09am

That's understandable. Same reason I'm learning Ruby.

You and this other kid I know are trying to learn 20,000 languages simutainously and it isn't doing much I don't think.
You're barely scraping the ice-burg on every language drifting mindlessly no where. Except he's trying to learn multiple operating systems too (Linux/Windows).

It makes me sad.

Honestly, if you consider learning a language to be such a daunting task, you are probably doing something wrong or you lack some fundamentals.

Learning a new language takes 2-3 weeks after you've actually taken more than 15 minutes to learn a single language.

I've been 'learning' Ruby for a couple of weeks now. I've been using Ruby, and playing with Haskell. I'm not trying to learn more than one language at a time. I've got a couple of projects lined up that I intend to implement in Ruby before moving on to another language, first of them being a shell. Besides that, I've spent a lot of time with Haskell, and I always go back to it time and time again. I've admittedly been taking a break from Clojure so I can learn Ruby. Where are you getting that I'm learning 20k languages simultaneously?

A language is merely a means of expressing a problem to a computer in a way that it can understand. Once you understand the expression, switching the form of expression is a trivial task. The more forms of expression you know, the easier it is to pick up another, since many of them share common syntax, grammar and operating procedure. When I learn a new language, I always try to have a goal in mind. I learned Perl because I wanted to extend my build system with extensible code generation tools. I learned Javascript because I needed to work with client web applications. I don't know how to do regular expressions matching in Python, because I've never needed to (thanks, Perl!), but if I ever need to, I can Google it (end up at http://docs.python.org/library/re.html ) and know Python-specific syntax. It's really not that difficult.

All you really did was split up the files (organized it), and changed the functions to inline...
Which just goes to show me, I was doing everything right from the git-go.

It's a console-based pong game. There aren't many places to make mistakes. Besides, most mistakes only show themselves in larger projects.

You made me feel as if I wrote the entire program wrong...
All I really did was not organize it, which I've always had a problem catageorizing stuff.