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People that belong in the job can do that. Others, not so much.

People that belong in the job, even the creator of C++ himself, take decades to mature to the point of daring to use the language properly and then teach it. C++ is not meant to be learned in a week.

Someone showed me this comic, over a decade ago now. Everytime someone suggests something like this I usually like to share it with them.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

I know Basic, Fortran, C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, and Lisp (wrote my own) and probably a bunch that I have forgot.

I have never spend more than a few days learning a language.

I have spent decades mastering several of these.

Any language that takes longer than a few days to learn the basics should be avoided, it will always be difficult to use.

APL being the most famous of such a language.

Haskell is safe from you, with that attitude.

Yes, it's true, I'm not a fan.

You can put Scala on that list as well.

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