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    copied!<p>I think I'm going a little crazy. </p> <p>Right now, I'm working with the following languages (I was just doing a mental inventory):</p> <ul> <li>C++ - our game engine</li> <li>Assembler - low level debugging and a few co-processor specific routines</li> <li>Lua - our game engine scripting language</li> <li>HLSL - for shaders</li> <li>Python - our build system and utility tools</li> <li>Objective C/C++ - game engine platform code for Mac and iPhone</li> <li>C# - A few tools developed in our overseas office</li> <li>ExtendScript - Photoshop exporting tools</li> <li>ActionScript - UI scripting</li> <li>VBScript - some spreadsheet related stuff</li> <li>PHP - some web related stuff</li> <li>SQL - some web and tool related stuff</li> </ul> <p>On top of this are the plethora of API's that often have many different ways of doing the same thing: std library, boost, .NET, wxWidgets, Cocoa, Carbon, native script libraries for Python, Lua, etc, OpenGL, Direct3d, GDI, Aqua, augh!</p> <p>I find myself inadvertently conflating languages and api's, not realizing what I'm doing until I get syntax errors. I feel like I can't possibly keep up with it, and I can't possibly be proficient in all of these areas. Especially outside the realm of C++ and Python, I find myself programming more by looking at manuals that from memory.</p> <p>Do you have a similar problem? Ideas for compartmentalizing so you're more efficient? Deciding where you want to stay proficient? Organizational tips? Good ways to remember when you switch from Lua to C++ you need to start using semi-colons again? Rants on how complicated we programmers have made things for ourselves?</p> <p>Any ideas welcome!</p>
 

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