When I came out of Google I could see the Python features that endeared it to Googlers (although I expect Go to replace Python pretty much everywhere there eventually). Blekko is a perl shop and it certainly felt a bit strange, but having gotten acclimated I can see the appeal. Every now and then I come across some really idiomatic perl and find it mind bendingly opaque, but for the most part I can code up a quick script in it faster than I ever could in Python.
Of course when you write code in a dozen languages you stop seeing the language after a while and just see the code. And at that point it really is all the same.
> Of course when you write code in a dozen languages you stop seeing the language after a while and just see the code. And at that point it really is all the same.
Fully agree. You start to look how language X exposes the CS concept Y, instead of just looking at language X feature list. A kind of meta level, if you will.
Of course when you write code in a dozen languages you stop seeing the language after a while and just see the code. And at that point it really is all the same.