Originally posted by Epicurus
Not really. It's just that I have sufficiently good background in programming, that learning a new language within a few weeks isn't a big deal for me. I am pretty sure anyone else in my stead would be easily capable of doing the same.
As a senior manager of an IT Organization (our development team reports to me), I can assure you, it is very uncommon for a programmer to be able to switch to another programming language (in a week or two) with which they have never programmed. In fact, the only place I have seen that ability is from a very gifted programmer, and a genius, in college. He was able to pick up any programming language and program, adeptly, in them regardless of the language.
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But, reading over yours and Bardock's conversation, you covered all of the points I wanted to (that C# and C+ would be an easy switch but Python and Haskell would be very difficult switch).
Originally posted by dadudemon
As a senior manager of an IT Organization (our development team reports to me), I can assure you, it is very uncommon for a programmer to be able to switch to another programming language (in a week or two) with which they have never programmed. In fact, the only place I have seen that ability is from a very gifted programmer, and a genius, in college. He was able to pick up any programming language and program, adeptly, in them regardless of the language.Edit -
But, reading over yours and Bardock's conversation, you covered all of the points I wanted to (that C# and C+ would be an easy switch but Python and Haskell would be very difficult switch).