On Mar 22, 12:14 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano > > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > The typical developer knows three, maybe four languages > > moderately well, if you include SQL and regexes as languages, and might > > have a nodding acquaintance with one or two more. > > I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "moderately well", nor > "languages", but I'm of the opinion that a good developer should be > able to learn a new language very efficiently. Do you count Python 2 > and 3 as the same language? What about all the versions of the C > standard? >
Not only is it hard to define what we precisely mean when we say "[knows] moderately well" or "[n number of] languages", but what in the world are we talking about with respect to "the typical developer"? How do we even begin to define that term? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
