Short term memory

It has been 2 months since I have coded a single line of C# . Today I have to use it again for some reason and I seem to have forgotten everything about it. My short term memory is killing me !.. Every once in a while I face this problem. A month ago, I forgot ruby syntax. It took me almost a day to get back to speed. A few months ago, same thing happened with PostgreSQL syntax. 3 months back with VBA Syntax!!

Sometimes I think I have to live with short term memory thing . Like now, I have to spend god knows, how many hours to get back to speed on C#. I don’t know how good programmers maintain their syntax knowledge for something they have not coded for a couple for months. May be they have good memory or they have some good memory aids. Whatever that might be, I seem to be lacking..

Short term memory has also been a boon to me. I don’t remember much of the past which kind of makes me feel lighter and approach any subject/ concept with no prior hypotheses…But in situations where you have to code which means you got to remember syntax, I become painfully aware of my handicap! Don’t know when I will find out a solution to remember syntax for at least a few languages that I am certain to use in my working life — Ruby, Rails, C#, VBA, C++, C, R, PostgreSQL .