It's a fair point that you have that ability and hope others will too. They might! I don't know that I would, but I might! I'm pretty stupid sometimes though.
My other comment on the nearby thread likely best-addresses why I think coming back "cold" is useful, based on an assumption that being a novice and being cold are similar, and maybe they're not.
With regard to picking up postscript specifically: I'm not intimately familiar with the language, but the bits I found in a quick search look a) less approachable than javascript to me, so fair point on that, but b) somewhat algol-like. At a glance I felt like I could pick up the flow-of-execution without a lot of work, though I could be wrong.
If it is kind of algol-like, I feel like that plays in favour of my argument a bit -- algol-like languages are so ubiquitous as to be hard to really not use the mental model for 5 years, so we're probably not really coming in "cold" to one.
Postscript is a concatenative (stack-based) language, not algol-like at all. Just as array languages, concatenative ones are terse and regular, but reversed (left-to-right evaluation instead of right-to-left).
My other comment on the nearby thread likely best-addresses why I think coming back "cold" is useful, based on an assumption that being a novice and being cold are similar, and maybe they're not.
With regard to picking up postscript specifically: I'm not intimately familiar with the language, but the bits I found in a quick search look a) less approachable than javascript to me, so fair point on that, but b) somewhat algol-like. At a glance I felt like I could pick up the flow-of-execution without a lot of work, though I could be wrong.
If it is kind of algol-like, I feel like that plays in favour of my argument a bit -- algol-like languages are so ubiquitous as to be hard to really not use the mental model for 5 years, so we're probably not really coming in "cold" to one.