Do Programming Language Skills Exist?

Re:Do Programming Language Skills Exist? by aklein on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:31PM (#2913737)

The author's list of "skills" are programming paradigms. You can't be skilled at a paradigm, only within it.

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Re:Do Programming Language Skills Exist? by jerf on Monday August 22, 2011 @04:25PM (#2913976)

Hmm.... "I am skilled at object-oriented programming." Seems grammatically correct, everybody knows what I mean, there's no particular ambiguity in it... compare with "I am skilled within object-oriented programming." which as a native speaker I find clearly wrong. What exactly are you saying?

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Re:Do Programming Language Skills Exist? by aklein on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @05:00PM (#2922463)

I'm starting to split hairs here, but I'd say the skill lies mostly in the action of programming, and not in the methodological use of object-orientation. That is, you are a skilled programmer within that paradigm.

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