I don't think you're contradicting my post. If you don't know the fundamental primitives you don't know the language yet.
You also don't need to know 200 of them, the author even addresses that point.
>Normal languages
Who's to say what "normal" is? There is a learning curve to other languages too, people just forget that because they went through it so long ago.
>Normal languages
Who's to say what "normal" is? There is a learning curve to other languages too, people just forget that because they went through it so long ago.