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What do you base this on? Got some data to share?



> What do you base this on?

Experience?

One does not get 'proficient' in a week in any given language. One can build up a program in a new language in a week, but that does not mean proficiency. It takes between many months and a few year to become proficient in a language: it is the outcome of a process of exploration, trials, mistakes, discoveries of better or more adapted ways, finding out the shortcomings an learning to work around them, picking a right balance between ease to write and ease to read, ease to write and performance...


So, in other words, anecdotal evidence.

So let's quantify what "proficient" means. How would you measure of someone is proficient in a programming language?


Proficient doesn't mean expert. It takes about 6 weeks to get proficient.




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