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Random question.. at what point can one say that they "know" a programming language? 🤔

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  • 7
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    When they know the name of the language.
    It is KNOWING SOMETHING, right?!
  • 4
    8y
    When you start thinking in that language to describe something.
  • 3
    8y
    When you can write "Hello World" program in that.
  • 19
    8y
    When you realize just how much it sucks and why.
  • 3
    8y
    To the point were you know how to make something with
  • 0
    8y
    When you know in what ways it is different from other languages, and you would be able to write an application in it without needing to rely on any kind of documentation/auto-complete all that much?
  • 0
    8y
    @ItsNotMyFault this.
  • 0
    8y
    When they can solve a problem on projecteuler.net using optimized brute force in that language.
  • 1
    8y
    Just like foreign languages, there's 3 levels of knowing:
    -can read it
    -can write/speak it
    -can think in it

    More of a spectrum, than a door one walks through.
  • 0
    8y
    When you look at it, and you know what it thinks.
  • 1
    8y
    From seeing my mate code. I think its not about knowing A language. Its about knowing the intrinsics of it languages. So you can study an unknown language and graps it ina few days study.
  • 0
    8y
    @mhudson stage 1 is quite tricky with japanese/chinese
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