I agree with your first point, with one caveat: Only good developers try to learn new languages enough to get good at it. At the price of arrogance, the "Avera

I agree with your first point, with one caveat: Only good developers try to learn new languages enough to get good at it. At the price of arrogance, the "Average" developer in the "Average" company is pretty bad at developing. The experience I've had is that learning things is usually a good indicator of the love for doing things well. The people who write crap code tend to also be the ones who don't even want to learn new languages, let along et good at doing so.