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Poll: How long for a top quartile programmer to be proficient in a new language?
I'm not a programmer (unless you count my Fortran 77 experience from my undergrad days), but it seems to me that programming languages have a half life of about 3 years. So I'm wondering, are there benchmarks, rules of thumb or perhaps just anecdotes on proficiency?
Here's a poll (I'll post results here). http://poll.pollcode.com/dCYd
- veyron 15y agoIf you want to make an HN poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll I thought the karma threshold for this was pretty low
- fnazeeri 15y agoThx, I recreated this poll here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618678 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618678