Why Learning a New Programming Language?
Few habits maintained by a good developer can be as beneficial as learning a new programming language from time to time. The reasoning is simple: no language is perfect, and most languages have some useful feature or abstraction that may enrich your pallete of abstractions. Consider for example what happens when you are used to strongly typed languages, such as Java. You start your program design looking for what types would be necessary to implement the concepts you are trying to represent. While I am not saying that this is the wrong way to go, there are other options that you can take when working with other languages. For example, if you work on a functional language such as LISP, you will be more interested in designing a domain specific language (DSL) that can more easily represent your problem — and this might be an even easier and more productive way of looking at the problem. Different languages have different things to teach about how to approach problems. By learning differe
