So...why would I need to learn another language other than for the journey along a new path..?

To swipe an old saying that Apple once swiped:

The journey is the reward.
By getting out and seeing more of the world, you're exposed to different perspectives, different ways of approaching problems, and different tools. All of which you can bring back to enrich whatever rut you've chosen to live in.

I'm not a particularly great Perl programmer, but by having worked in Smalltalk many years back I can do things with objects in Perl that amaze people who think Perl is merely a scripting language. By having worked in C, C++, and Java (and *cough* VB), I can intelligently compare and contrast them. And if I get into a project where some of these languages need to co-exist, I'm not lost. By having debugged in all of these environments, I've amassed a big bag of tricks.

You can do a lot of things in Perl, but Perl isn't the world. Get out and travel a bit.

In reply to Re: Why learn another language? by dws
in thread Why learn another language? by AcidHawk

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