It does not take ten years to learn things. It might take 10 years to be good at something. I recently took up lawn bowls. I learned it in about 30 mins. It's q

It does not take ten years to learn things. It might take 10 years to be good at something. I recently took up lawn bowls. I learned it in about 30 mins. It's quite simple. I'm not any good at it. I used the Learn C++ in 24 Hours book as an undergraduate. It was excellent. It was the book the university recommended, and it was probably the only book I bought as an undergraduate engineer that was actually indispensable. I actually used it, page by page, and during that course I produced a really cool 'moon lander' game in 3D. Was I an accomplished programmer? Absolutely not. Had I learned the basics? Yeh. Good enough for an undergrad electrical engineer. It feels like you are railing against one premise (a programming language can be learned in 24 Hours) only to propose another similarly bonkers premise (a programming language can't be learned in less than 10 years). What's the point?