[ashark]

I find I often forget basic language syntax when I don't have adjoining lines to crib from, say, when white boarding. And that's with languages I'm actively working in—I'm hopeless in anything I haven't used in a couple months, even if I wrote in it daily for the five years before that. I'll flat out forget which language features it supports, or how to address them.

[Pokepokalypse]

Same. 25 years experience. (especially now that I have about a dozen obsolete languages under my belt). This is fine in daily practice, and does not interfere with productivity. But getting through that hiring filter; devastating.

[ashark]

I hope that this is because I have, over the years, become like Liezi's good judge of horses[1], but fear it's just that I have a bad memory for programming language details. Probably it's a bit of both.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/taoism/comments/38h66v/liezi_book_8...