>I've taken your challenge and passed. Are you calling me a liar?
I'm calling you not particularly self-aware. After a year of coding in that language, the code you wrote after 2 weeks will likely look like crap to you. Unless that language is so domain specific that there's no room for design or so derivative that you can apply another language's style 100%, you almost definitely still have more to learn after 2 weeks.
RE: Semantics, that's all true, but if you don't have enough experience in the language to even say you kinda know the library, you probably don't actually grok the semantics. For example, Java, can you tell me the difference between volatile and synchronized as it regards the memory model without looking it up? What's a happens-before relationship and how is it relevant to those keywords? What's the transient modifier do? Transient's pretty irrelevant these days but if you can't answer the first 2 questions without going to google, you don't know the semantics of Java.
As I've gotten more experience, my estimation of my own knowledge has consistently gone down. I think it's a good approach.
I'm calling you not particularly self-aware. After a year of coding in that language, the code you wrote after 2 weeks will likely look like crap to you. Unless that language is so domain specific that there's no room for design or so derivative that you can apply another language's style 100%, you almost definitely still have more to learn after 2 weeks.
RE: Semantics, that's all true, but if you don't have enough experience in the language to even say you kinda know the library, you probably don't actually grok the semantics. For example, Java, can you tell me the difference between volatile and synchronized as it regards the memory model without looking it up? What's a happens-before relationship and how is it relevant to those keywords? What's the transient modifier do? Transient's pretty irrelevant these days but if you can't answer the first 2 questions without going to google, you don't know the semantics of Java.
As I've gotten more experience, my estimation of my own knowledge has consistently gone down. I think it's a good approach.