Agreed, I don't know why the industry (or people?) in general have a problem with accepting this abilities gap.
It's as if the notion of people being arbitrarily born more or less with a knack for something is evil.
Let me tell you the story of when I realized I was (at best), a "not-mediocre" dev:
1. I've been programming for fun even as a kid. That's what got me into it: If you count kid-programming as "programming", I've been programming for ~14-15 years.
2. There was a girl who used to work with me at $DAYJOB, who is fairly well-known on The Orange Website, and has written some "thought leader" papers in certain niches. A real einstein.
I asked her in DM at work about her background and how long she's been coding -- both in general and the language she's well-known for. The answer was:
"A couple of years -- and a few of those were writing another language. This is my first real job writing $LANGUAGE_WELL_KNOWN_FOR."
Well, fuck me.
This is called "innate ability". Humans aren't created equal, nobody said they had to be, and it's not a crime to acknowledge it. Folks ought to get over it IMO, it's not a big deal.
I will never understand CS and programming-language theory concepts at that caliber or that intuitively, but who cares?
I'm also short as fuck so I doubt I'll be playing in the NBA anytime soon either. Life goes on.
It's as if the notion of people being arbitrarily born more or less with a knack for something is evil.
Let me tell you the story of when I realized I was (at best), a "not-mediocre" dev:
I asked her in DM at work about her background and how long she's been coding -- both in general and the language she's well-known for. The answer was: Well, fuck me.This is called "innate ability". Humans aren't created equal, nobody said they had to be, and it's not a crime to acknowledge it. Folks ought to get over it IMO, it's not a big deal.
I will never understand CS and programming-language theory concepts at that caliber or that intuitively, but who cares?
I'm also short as fuck so I doubt I'll be playing in the NBA anytime soon either. Life goes on.