From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T06:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

" JamesBritt" <james@jamesbritt.com> writes:

> Pragmatic versus exotic; use the pragmatic approach in day-to-day work, and
> explore exotic tools by night.

Well.. I'd say learning Haskell, or OCaml, or Ruby, is pragmatic. Each
of these teaches us something about the nature of programming, and
each improves us as programmers. I too take issue with the OPs
criteria: choosing what to learn based solely of the prosaic is unlikely
to achieve the kind of benefits he's looking for.


Dave