It is unlikely that you know C++ to a professionally useful depth from one semester. It's also fair to say C++ expertise is more employable, and in more divers

It is unlikely that you know C++ to a professionally useful depth from one semester. It's also fair to say C++ expertise is more employable, and in more diverse and interesting domains, than the dynamic languages. As best I can tell Perl, Python, and Ruby are all practically equivalent. All equally suited to web development. Just pick one. I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that Perl is still the most likely to be professionally useful. I never got the lisp propaganda. I invested some time with scheme and didn't get much out of it. Yes, I wrote macros and used call/cc. The most useful idioms are in fact already available and used in the so-called scripting languages. IMHO, your time is better spent completing good projects with rock solid libraries than futzing around with the language fetishists. Maybe there are some deep insights from Haskell I'm missing, but I seriously doubt it.