Does anyone ever actually learn a programming language?

Question

Does anyone ever actually learn the whole language, or do they grasp key concepts and learn to use APIs and how to apply them. Do all programers look up how to do things regardless of how long they've been coding?

Answer 1

So it's just learning some apis in depth depending on the project

Answer 2

Does anyone actually learn a spoken language?

Programing languages are just like spoken languages, we know most words, grammar, etc but we still most likely own a dictionary.

Even people with years of experience and a computer science degree googel things every now and again.

Also like spoken languages programing languages evolve over time so learning all of a language is only possible at certain point in time or with dead languages.

Anyway point is I would not worry about learning absolutely everything :)

Answer 3

maybe the creator of that language but chances are less.

Answer 4

depending on the Purpose of the project you are working you learn very deeply some group of functions of the language and algorithms
As you change projects and field or companies you learn some other group of functions
As you said, we always keep learning, new patterns, new functions, better tools
So it's unnecessary memorize of try to memorize all the functionality of one language

Answer 5

We have to be updated
Always search for better, efficient ways to do the job
Learn best practices, patterns

Don't work harder, work smarter XD