From: tran55555@... (Email55555)
Date: 2002-08-22T23:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

Hi,

Like other programmers, I did learn and use some languages.
(Postscript, Forth, Pascal, ADA, Cobol, PL1, Lisp, CL, RPG, 
Mainframe assembler, C/C++, VB, Java, Perl, Ruby ... )

I really want to know when we talk "learn" a new language,
what exactly the definition of "learn" ?

Is it just learn the syntax of language ?
It is much much difference depend on your definition of "learn".
Think about this, learn java language, I think you can
spend a little bit of time to learn java syntax.
But if you want learn the entire API, Oops, that take
may-be not in one year ( J2SE, J2EE ).

So, any language come out with their (huge?) libraries;
without learning those libraries can we consider learned that language?

One Year One language? (How many time per day? Without learn all libraries ?)

Your opinion ?