Languages

My sister was asking me today how I remember all the different components of a computer programming language.

I told her simply, I don't.

Through the internet, I have access to the full vocabulary of any programming language. I only need to know that something might exist, and if so, how to find it.

My sister is learning Swahili, so I gave her the example of trying to find the word for 'internet' in Swahili. It's a word of recent origin and largely used within specific professional communities, so it was likely to be a borrowed word with maybe some slight phonetic variation. From that context, one could assume that using the word 'internet' within a larger Swahili dialogue would be understood by the listener.

She told me the Swahili word for 'internet' was 'biashara ya', so maybe it was a bad example.

The point stands, it's more important to understand how a programming languages operates than memorizing all its components.