On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:52:56AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Mark de Wever <[email protected]>: > > My problem is that nowadays a lot of people think you can learn foo in 21 > > days and master it in that time. Learning something costs time and > > practice. Telling people you can master Python in less then two week > > only increases that believe, that's my problem with the statement you > > can learn Python in 4 days. It's not against Python but against the > > general idea that you can learn a craft in a very short time. > > I didn't have to learn a "craft" in a short time; I already knew how > to program. You really should read that article.
I already read the article. There are two crafts involved; programming in general and programming in Python. I *really* hate it when people claim you can be fluent in a programming language in a few days/weeks, because you _can't_. Be familiar and do things in a language in a few days, when you already know how to program, yes being fluent no! If we follow the same analogy people should be able to learn C++, a more difficult language, fluently in a few weeks. -- Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
