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It depends. Languages like Haskell or the different Lisp dialects can make you hate whatever other language you have to use, and can lead you to start writing non-idiomatic code (after Haskell, my C# code became littered with higher-order functions, and after Lisp I’ve started using code generation, and still feel like I’m programming with both hands tied behind my back).
About all Turing-complete languages being equivalent, this is only true in the strict mathematical sense - like a scooter and a fighter jet are equivalent in that they’re both vehicles that move from point A to point B. In reality, programming languages can be very, very different, and emulating one in another is rarely a good idea (since it won’t be idiomatic code). You have to try to show restraint, and this isn’t very easy when you’ve seen stuff.
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It depends. Languages like Haskell or the different Lisp dialects can make you hate whatever other language you have to use, and can lead you to start writing non-idiomatic code (after Haskell, my C# code became littered with higher-order functions, and after Lisp I’ve started using code generation, and still feel like I’m programming with both hands tied behind my back).
About all Turing-complete languages being equivalent, this is only true in the strict mathematical sense - like a scooter and a fighter jet are equivalent in that they’re both vehicles that move from point A to point B. In reality, programming languages can be very, very different, and emulating one in another is rarely a good idea (since it won’t be idiomatic code). You have to try to show restraint, and this isn’t very easy when you’ve seen stuff.
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