There's a lot of value to learning new programming languages even if you can't use them in your day job. It helps you think about the problems you face differently. See a new perspective on solving problems.
The languages which are interesting to me are:
And smalltalk for knowing what the grandmaster poobahs did back in the day.
To keep your chops up, try learning a new language every year.
www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/loty/
(http://www.pragprog.com/articles/designing-learning )
Learning something new doesn't mean you're rejecting what you already know and do...
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Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath, November 23rd, 2007 on 12:27 pm
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Comment by Tom — November 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I just started learning ruby for just that reason. so far it's been a pretty satisfying experience.
btw, the pragmatic link is dead.
Comment by Tom — November 23rd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I just started learning ruby for just that reason.
btw, the pragmatic link is dead.