EDIT: An HNer says without evidence that my coworkers suck and gets upvoted; I come to their defense and get downvoted? What strange world is this in which baseless accusations are encouraged?
> Just cause your coworkers sucked doesn't invalidate the point.
My coworkers don't suck. In fact, I've yet to meet a technical person here that I can confidently say I'm smarter than.
> I challenge anyone to write good code in a new language after 2 weeks of learning it.
I've taken your challenge and passed. Are you calling me a liar?
> Also, if you claim to know the semantics but not the library of a language, you probably don't actually know the semantics. Corner cases matter.
Libraries are molded by semantics, and not vice versa. It's certainly necessary to know the libraries in order to be proficient in a language, but it's not at all necessary to know the libraries in order to know its semantics well.
> Just cause your coworkers sucked doesn't invalidate the point.
My coworkers don't suck. In fact, I've yet to meet a technical person here that I can confidently say I'm smarter than.
> I challenge anyone to write good code in a new language after 2 weeks of learning it.
I've taken your challenge and passed. Are you calling me a liar?
> Also, if you claim to know the semantics but not the library of a language, you probably don't actually know the semantics. Corner cases matter.
Libraries are molded by semantics, and not vice versa. It's certainly necessary to know the libraries in order to be proficient in a language, but it's not at all necessary to know the libraries in order to know its semantics well.