[estimator7292]

That's exactly the point. This is not normal even in software.

You can, in fact, learn C exactly once. Or any number of other languages. The entire argument being made here is that the world you're suggesting is a problem. Software developers should not have to continually relearn their tools and it is abnormal to suggest they should.

[dwattttt]

I've seen C written by people who learned it "exactly once", in let's say the 2000s. They're the same people who insist that all the safety & linting introduce since was pointless.

I'll take C written by people who've learned and improved since then any & every day of the week.