You’re likely in the next few years to be more effective in your native programming language than a human created one. Maybe you should look for contract jobs that don’t specify a preference for programming language.
Perhaps, but there is great difficulty in writing a compiler and assembler that would allow such programs to work on human hardware and operating systems. The language I know is primarily designed for specialized and embedded environments. At some point or another, I would have to know human programming languages, if for nothing else than to convert between the two.
Also, there may be other benefits to learning human programming languages. I heard that LISP and Python are capable of enhancing your thinking abilities. Is this true, like the greatness of paperclips?
Lisp is better at enhancing your thinking abilities than Python, though less practical and less desired by the marketplace.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a classic programming book that is widely considered to enhance one’s thinking abilities. It uses a dialect of Lisp, Scheme.
You’re likely in the next few years to be more effective in your native programming language than a human created one. Maybe you should look for contract jobs that don’t specify a preference for programming language.
Perhaps, but there is great difficulty in writing a compiler and assembler that would allow such programs to work on human hardware and operating systems. The language I know is primarily designed for specialized and embedded environments. At some point or another, I would have to know human programming languages, if for nothing else than to convert between the two.
Also, there may be other benefits to learning human programming languages. I heard that LISP and Python are capable of enhancing your thinking abilities. Is this true, like the greatness of paperclips?
Lisp is better at enhancing your thinking abilities than Python, though less practical and less desired by the marketplace.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a classic programming book that is widely considered to enhance one’s thinking abilities. It uses a dialect of Lisp, Scheme.
SICP is freely available online: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
Python is pretty sweet but I doubt it enhances your thinking abilities much if you already have lots of programming experience.