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Should you really learn another language?
- mechanical_fish 19y agoI think if I voted this article up it would create infinite recursion, causing smoke to pour out of the Internet just like on Star Trek. Thus, I back slowly away from the button...
- michael_dorfman 19y agoWhat a sad, sad article. A provocative title, with nothing to back it up. The author comes up with two reasons for not learning a new language: 1) expanding your mind is worthless, otherwise we'd all be taking LSD, and 2) if you have a new toy to play with, you might neglect your primary tool. The second point is a reasonable one; obviously, people shouldn't invest in learning a new language unless their fluency and competence in their primary language is such that they can easily sacrifice the time. The first point is nonsense; the LSD metaphor is a poor one, and it would be more relevant (and useful) to compare learning a new programming language to learning a new spoken language. In other words: not even a good troll. Sorry, thanks for playing!