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I'm making the case for how to pick programming languages to learn focusing on general ability to read any programming language by choosing languages through their syntax paradigms then by their language features.

Large Language Models can beat anyone at generating code, so instead of being a good program writer, why don't we become great program readers?

The above is a question I'm posing myself. While using LLMs I noticed they are amazing at generating, but often make a few subtle mistakes and need guidance. Then the question becomes, how do we become a great guide?

Also, we often limit ourselves to a set of programming languages that we can output code productively. The bottleneck here is usualy code generation. So, if LLMs solve code generation it does mean a generally skilled programmer should be able to write programs in any programming language.

Thus, how do we become great at reading ANY programming language? How do we prepare for that?

Disclaimer: I'm not a programming language expert, nor did I pursue Computer Science, this post is based on some research plus experience in my professional programming career.

This is a two part series. In this post I'll talk about syntax paradigms. On the second post we I'll uncover programming language features you can focus on learning.

Syntax Paradigms

1. Become great a reading code.

Programing language features versus syntax paradigms.