One can know all the syntax in the world,
yet never truly master a languageOne can know every trick in the book,
but the book, your skill will not gaugeTo master programming, one must *think* it
but the thoughts are not the sameC is a language of structure and abstraction
where logic is not but a distractionTo know pointers and structures is quite essential
and with arrays the mind one must fillTo think C++ is a great trouble
for what was one static is know flimsy, like a bubbleThe virtual, the object, the try and the catch
and principa encapsulation you must snatchTo think in the shell script is to think with many eyes
thousands of options may be your demiseTo think in perl is to think of flexibility,
but grasping the concpets will test your abilityThe string is scalar, the scalar is the int,
the filestreams are simple, you needn't a hintThe hashes are structured, but easy to change,
the arrays are not constant, easily rangedThe scalar can bend, twist and flex,
with the '.' the '=~' and of course 'hex()'To think in HTML is to think like the bad "Bowser",
to think with not, except for your browserThough many a language has been left out,
I hope this poem left you no doubt
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