>I hate language wars. ... you're arguing about the wrong thing.
It's easy to take this for granted, but it's a concept that is very important to stress to new coders. If you spend too much time focusing on one language you run the risk of the form becoming the logic . This is a dangerous place where your work can be better analogized to muscle memory than to logical thought.
At least in a college environment, I think this lack of plasticity causes discomfort with different representations of similar logic - and so flame wars abound.
>Be promiscuous with languages
>I hate language wars. ... you're arguing about the wrong thing.
It's easy to take this for granted, but it's a concept that is very important to stress to new coders. If you spend too much time focusing on one language you run the risk of the form becoming the logic . This is a dangerous place where your work can be better analogized to muscle memory than to logical thought.
At least in a college environment, I think this lack of plasticity causes discomfort with different representations of similar logic - and so flame wars abound.