Are English-like programming languages really easier to learn than cryptic languages?
I find them to be of equal difficulty. I actually had a hell of a time learning SQL, because it’s different for each RDBMS, but I had no problem learning bash, despite all its reckless abbreviation. I was wondering what you think about this. Life’s too short to be cool. Be a nerd. –> Reply With Quote –> 12-12-2009 11:11 AM #2 Orjan Join Date Sep 2007 Location Karlstad, Sweden Age 34 Posts 2,620 Blog Entries7 Re: Are English-like programming languages really easier to learn than cryptic langua I think that for a beginner, a more english like language, as for example Pascal or Basic might be easier to learn, but as soon as you understand the fundamentals of programming as with iterations, selection, flow control, I believe it’s as easy with any language within the same programming paradigm. Then you reach a new step to climb when you try another paradigm that you aren’t used to. I would say that SQL is a very different language, as it’s not really a programming language, but as the nam
