| Title | How Long Does it Take to Become Productive in a Programming Language? | |
| Date | Wednesday October 01 2014, @04:11AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the (DEFUN-HELLO-()-"HELLO-WORLD"-) dept. | ||
raganwald.com has some interesting thoughts on the time it takes to be productive in different programming language (and programming language types), as well as what it means to be productive, in a an essay title "600 Months". It starts with this thought-provoking statement:
“I have personally found that LISP is unbelievably productive if you’re willing to invest in the 600-month learning curve.”-Paul Ford
That's 50 years - nearly the entire history of LISP as a language, and far more time than most of us have available for learning a new language.
What languages took you the longest to feel "fluent" in? What language concepts do you still have trouble grasping?
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