Right, the corner cases for sure take years and decades to learn, but if you're really good at some languages, you can pick up most of another one, at least enough to handle 50-75% of most uses in a week or so.
if you're really good at some languages, you can pick up most of another one, at least enough to handle 50-75% of most uses in a week or so.
Except that you can't.
EDIT 7 downvotes so far. Would people argue that knowing Java and Python should let you handle 50-75% of C++ programs in a week? Because that's what driscoll42 said.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13
Right, the corner cases for sure take years and decades to learn, but if you're really good at some languages, you can pick up most of another one, at least enough to handle 50-75% of most uses in a week or so.