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I disagree with the article where it says: Tools and languages are like foreign languages - if you don’t use it, you lose it. You don't lose it, you just get r
by cabalamat 18y ago
I disagree with the article where it says: Tools and languages are like foreign languages - if you don’t use it, you lose it.
You don't lose it, you just get rusty. I haven't coded in C, C++ or Smalltalk in years. If I started again, it would take me a few days to get up to speed. But after then I'd be just as productive as I was.
- nostrademons 18y agoI've been surprised how quickly it comes back. When I was working with a YC company this summer, I had to do some PHP. I was up and running in about an hour and a half - everything was familiar, I knew where to go to find API calls, and I wasn't all that much slower than when I was doing PHP daily. And I hadn't written anything in PHP for about 3 years before then, and had been actively trying to forget the language.
- gaius 18y agoWell, yes and no. There was a time when programming was 90% knowing the language and 10% knowing the libraries. Now it's the reverse.