• Flying Squid
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      Sorry, how do you know she hasn’t been coding since childhood? All the top coders I know have been coding since childhood. They also know more than one language in my experience despite your claim. I have two close relatives, one I know for a fact earns seven figures. He was constantly learning to code new languages when he was younger. He’s slowed down now that he’s middle aged, but I remember when he was learning BASIC and Assembler on his Apple ][. And later Pascal. And then C. And then C++ and then Java. And so on.

      Also, plenty of people learn second or even third spoken languages as adults and become fluent in them. My childhood best friend’s father fled Ceascescu’s Romania after being conscripted, came to America, learned English, and then wrote academic works. In English.

        • Flying Squid
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          Again- best friend’s dad wrote academic literature in English after learning it as an adult. That sounds like you can get fluent in a language as an adult to me.

          And please do show the data that “those kinds of people” are introverts. I would like to see it.

        • @Stoneykins
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          What are your qualifications? Why are you claiming you have the necessary knowledge to speak on this topic? Do you have any evidence of your expertise? And real hard proof, because talk is easy.

          Honestly you are either a child, an idiot, or a troll at this point. No one else would be so determined to miss the point.

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      11 year ago

      I want to crack another joke but you seem frustrated so I’ll be direct

      You are the one making broad sweeping claims based on assumptions and anecdotal experience. You should either find something more substantial to back it up than “real programmers are loners because they don’t have time to make friends”, or reevaluate your stance on this. Maybe consider there are people in cs that are different than any you have personally met.