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> Everyone is capable of learning. I can hire someone who is capable of learning Japanese. They can then try to teach the rest of the team Japanese. Does that m
by Jtsummers 3y ago
> Everyone is capable of learning. I can hire someone who is capable of learning Japanese. They can then try to teach the rest of the team Japanese. Does that mean it's a good idea to switch all our internal docs to Japanese?
The difference between Japanese and English is much, much bigger than the difference between one Unix OS and one Unix-like OS. This is a remarkably disingenuous argument. If you really don't understand the difference in scope, there's no point in discussing anything with you because you've managed to disprove your opening sentence with yourself as the counterexample.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoYou're welcome to see it that way if you want. But if you think you can get to know a completely new kernel, OS, etc in a short amount of time, backwards and forwards, you're equally as disingenuous. You can get by editing a few lines in a pinch, but you could equally just learn a few Japanese phrases. Proper understanding requires a deep knowledge that comes from practice and experience with subtle complexity and context. (Japanese isn't so radically different from English, it mostly just has more words for more contexts. In many ways it's simpler than English. It would be harder to go from Java to Haskell, with their many different language paradigms)