> Pardon me for being insulted by the insinuation that something that took me 40 years to become as proficient as I am with it can be mastered by everybody else

> Pardon me for being insulted by the insinuation that something that took me 40 years to become as proficient as I am with it can be mastered by everybody else in a few months. I don't think anyone who claims that "programming can be learned in an afternoon" understands that to mean "programming can be mastered in an afternoon". Mastery comes, in large part, from experience, and there is no shortcut to experience.