[ghrifter]

Yep this is what I'm realizing after a few years of programming. I can pick up a language easily, however learning it's APIs is almost as hard as learning the syntax for the language itself.

Like how do I open a file? Ok cool. How do I close it? Do I need to explicitly close it? Ok.

Also, learning APIs for other peoples codebases/software is task of learning that isn't trivial too

[jbeja]

This is why language oriented programming is a better alternative to everything else.