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"At the time that I wrote this book I knew about 20 programming languages and could learn new ones in about a day to a week depending on how weird they were."

He's saying the entire range is a day to a week. The ones that are isomorphic would take a day or two, I agree.

But he's saying the ones that are not isomorphic also take just up to a week, and according to other discussions with him, it's not because he's already an expert in those other types of languages.



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