The old joke used to be that “ a good FORTRAN programmer can write a good FORTRAN program in any programming language .” The problem and what makes the joke not all that funny is that it involves not taking full advantage of the language in question. It is not a FORTRAN specific problem by any means. I have known many so called C++ programmers who really wrote C programs using a C++ compiler. Many programming languages are designed with an idea towards changing the way programs are written, problems are solved and how people think about problem solving.  Taking on a new programming language ...read more