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You've spawned a silly thread, because mastering a language is a spectrum that takes years.

In 3 days someone should be able to fix a small business logic bug in a program in a new language, like copy-pasting a if-block to handle a new simple case, or improving an error message by grabbing a variable from context and for setting it for output, but not write a useful program.



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