Lambda the Ultimate

The idea of programming-language determinism has some truth to it, but is overrated. Because we are often tackling the same problems in C, Perl, Scheme, Smalltalk, and so on, we can usually find a way to analyze them and code solutions using common designs. Sometimes the features of a particular language make a particular solution much more elegant and comprehensible, and in that case form influences content. But these languages have enough common ground that they can share many designs. C may have pre-increment and post-increment operators, but you can still add 1 to a variable in any language that supports variables.

I agree with some of the style tips the author gives, but I think understanding the different abstraction facilities different languages offer is even more important for writing readable and maintainable code.