>One thing I have learned is that there is nothing that you can do in one language that you can't do in another While this is true, I have also learned that th

>One thing I have learned is that there is nothing that you can do in one language that you can't do in another While this is true, I have also learned that there are significant differences in convenience and ease of development, that libraries matter a lot for actual applications (as opposed to experimenting to get the 'feel' for a language), and that the new concepts and coding-and-code-structuring conventions I learn along with a new language may be as important as the language itself. Among my formative experiences, I'd list C, Lisp, Java (namespaces and Javadoc), Javascript and Erlang - they take quite different approaches to computing.