Re:How long does it take you to learn a new programming lang...
by cwilbur on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:01PM
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Learning the basics? A weekend.
Learning the idioms? A month.
Mastery? Heck, I've been programming in C for 15 years and Perl for 10, and I don't think I'm a master in either.
And at this point I can pick up a new language (Javascript, say, which is my current sort-of project) and it's just a matter of learning syntax because I've used that concept in another language before.
Learning the idioms? A month.
Mastery? Heck, I've been programming in C for 15 years and Perl for 10, and I don't think I'm a master in either.
And at this point I can pick up a new language (Javascript, say, which is my current sort-of project) and it's just a matter of learning syntax because I've used that concept in another language before.