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A professional developer should be able to take command of a new language in a month. Usually learning the libraries takes longer.
by samuli 12y ago
A professional developer should be able to take command of a new language in a month. Usually learning the libraries takes longer.
- joncooper 12y agoExactly. In either case there's nearly 30 years of libraries to learn to be effective on Apple platforms. (Significant traces of work done at NeXT remain, which started in the mid-80s, I believe.) The language itself is the least of your worries. That said, I am excited about Swift because the hardest part of teaching new developers to work on Apple platforms is the fact that you need to understand C to write Objective-C.
- dman 12y agoI invite you to try this with Common Lisp or Haskell.