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Re: When does programming become automatic (if ever)?by Discipulus (Canon) |
on Apr 13, 2016 at 08:54 UTC ( [id://1160297]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
But leaving the gifted ones aside.. So you want my opinion: ten years are enough to practice basic things fluently, at least for me. I had no scientific backgroud, nor a programming one. I work now as sysadmin and I try to automate many tasks with Perl so when I work with Perl in my main fields I write programs quite fast. When i go to explore other fields (such web programming using Dancer2 for example) I still suffer of slow learning times. The fact is that I like programming in Perl because I feel it as a sane interaction with the machine, so mostly in the past, i passed many hours of my spare time programming. I have many limits and many things to improve: testing and preparing good distributions are ontop of my todo list. It is many times a matter of aptitude: what is your standard for good software? Perl make the job done quickly: this is a good thing but can limit you in the research of good software at the state of the art of Perl programming. I tell the difference between Perl programmers and Perl scriptor. see Re: A use strict confession, with real questions. (Perl scriptors and Perl programmers) and the whole thread to see what i mean. L* update: traversing my main boilerplate directory it seems i have wrote lot of programs (without takin in the count remote systems and private home pc)
There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
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