> This is absolutely correct.  Real competance is to know the underlying
> principles in a way that can be applied using any programming language. 
> This implies that C++, Java, Clean, Perl/Python, Makefiles, shell is an
> instance of a set of languages representing:  compiled efficient
> procedural / object oriented, interpreted dynamically bound procedural /
> object oriented, declarative, programming scripting, job control
> declarative / procedural, job control scripting.

I forgot to mention macro processing.  Languages like CPP (C
pre-processor), m4, TeX, are also important.

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