> “Someone who can't understand the code they've been assigned to work on” Nobody said anything like this! I don’t understand how you make this conflation mist

> “Someone who can't understand the code they've been assigned to work on” Nobody said anything like this! I don’t understand how you make this conflation mistake. Before I ever read one single character of Scala code, I had written hundreds of thousands of lines of code in C, Python and Haskell, among others. It was easy to understand Scala code despite having never read it except for places where people tried to rely on needless shorthand or obtuse ways of doing things. I can’t understand your response. It’s so easy to write C code that a veteran C expert has to spend hours to understand, or to rewrite the same code in a way where a freshman who only ever used Java could equally easily understand it. Familiarity with how to unlock meaning from badly written code is not the same thing as experience with a language.