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To: i-node who wrote (76151)	6/7/2018 3:51:04 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365026

They're pretty much all the same to me, other than OO or not OO and strongly or weakly typed. Syntax is nothing more than an annoyance. That is harder to explain than it should be. They are pretty much all the same. If they are OO, they are all c++ derivatives with a simplified inheritance model. If they are procedural, then they are all very similar. Almost all of the newer ones use the regex stuff from perl. Sure, there are some details that are different, Python has its collections and whitespace requirements, Java is just anal about everything, Javascript has its prototypes, but they aren't all that different. Not like, say FORTH. Or Lisp. Even functional programming isn't all that different. Yet people tend to get bug-eyed when you tell them that. I have learned way too many languages to get all religious over them. They are tools, not totems.