fluency

Maps & folds & monads are the words of the language, not fluency.

So don't forget the class of slackers who mean to get around to Haskell fluency one day, but not today.

He's really composed and well-spoken for a 17 year old, and I'm not just talking about his English fluency.

Perhaps a better emphasis would be on repetition, drilling, and fluency.

His level seems on par for 3 months of study, so perhaps he equates basic communication as "fluency.

So when I went to college, I loaded up on languages, graduating with 6 different languages at at least the 200-level and fluency in 3 of those languages.

Based on 20 years of experience, lack of fluency in algorithms _is_ a surefire indicator of bad architecture skills.

I just don't believe his claim: "C1 fluency in French in about 5 months" if he started from 0 unless he didn't do anything but learning the language in the target country.

It is analogous to conversing in a language where one has to look up every other word compared to a native speaker who has a deep fluency.

The need to understand basic statistics is a far cry from needing to have "exceptional mathematical fluency.

Also, it's debatable whether even the 3/3+ moniker equates to fluency.

An extremely high level of fluency with a programming language environment is invaluable when it comes to efficiency and code quality.

Do we call this amalgamation of languages a third language, then?I think there needs to be a distinction based on varying levels of fluency; I see it as a major contributing factor.

Is it obnoxious for a person to teach introductory French night classes, when fluency will take years and may never be possible for the students given their other commitments?

If the overarching question is "does algorithmic fluency constitute a dealbreaker when hiring at certain positions", then I suppose the answer depends on how much longer it would take.

It's the "rote pattern matching" versus "mathetic language fluency" issue that's at the heart of things like Papert's Constructivist learning theory[1] and it really causes me to have little surprise at an article like this.

"The thing is, I know that I'm perfectly capable of nurturing greater fluency in algorithms, so it seems like a waste to inevitably flub the more demanding portions of algorithm-based interviews.

If you also filter to require mastery of PHP, javascript, and Marqui, 10 years experience with Server 2008 and fluency in a Romance language...tl;dr: the absence of time travelers in the applicant pool is not evidence of a skills shortage.