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From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert A. Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question (What was your C learning curve?)
Message-ID: <682@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 13:00:06 GMT
References: <4132@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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In article <4132@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
>First: what skill level did you have with the language after one, two,
>three, four and five years?
On a scale of tyro to Henry? :-)

I found that increases in my C skills were not so much a matter of time as
of events; ie. all of the following resulted in a large increase:

	initial exposure                      (3   years ago)
	changing companies                    (2.5 years ago)
	net access                            (1+  year ago)
	subscribing to comp.lang.c            (1   year ago)
	Indian Hill Style Guide               (1-  year ago)

even though there was little time between the last three events.
Also, it's incrediable how much you can learn by debugging a project
written by several people or by modifing stuff off the net.

Rob.
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