"Expertise is about knowing many languages and computational models to
usable level even if you only ever work with one language."

True that. Learning new languages is learning new ways of thinking. There's
always something to be gained by it.

"Give the man a coin, that he may profit by what he learns"

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 17:34 -0700, work only wrote:
> > Don't see the point of another language :(
> >
> > I'll stop with Java, Scala and C#
>
> Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Mirah, . . .
>
> Python, Ruby, . . .
>
> C++, D, Go, . . .
>
> Fortran, Cobol, . . .
>
> Lisp, . . .
>
> Prolog, . . .
>
> Expertise is about knowing many languages and computational models to
> usable level even if you only ever work with one language.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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