On: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (2004)

[falcolas]

Eh, we picked up a developer with no experience but Erlang, and he's productive in Python and Go only a few months later. Peer coding and good code reviews (and a good attitude) do wonders.

[Chris2048 → falcolas]

What's "productive"? He's producing Pythonic Python? He can read other peoples code?

If so, sounds like he's smart enough to pick it up.