Rainer Deyke wrote:
That depends on the language, I think. C++ takes years to learn. Python took me one month to reach full fluency. There may still be obscure corners of Python that I haven't explored, but they so obscure that I'm unlikely to ever encounter them in normal programming. They don't matter.
I've found when I learn a new language, I write it in the style of the previous language I used, i.e. writing Fortran in C, writing C in C++, etc. It takes a while for the idiomatic usage of the language to creep in. Until then, one hasn't mastered it.
Oh, and the evidence is it takes 10 years to master C++. That's a pretty hefty investment.
