> So if you want to expand your concept of what programming can be, one way to do it is by learning weird languages. This is surely the key line here - and the

> So if you want to expand your concept of what programming can be, one way to do it is by learning weird languages. This is surely the key line here - and the stuff about glue code and median users etc frankly just detracts from it. It's true in any field. If you want to expand your ways of thinking look for stuff that has been reasonably successful but is outside the mainstream. Put it that way it's sort of obvious but probably easy to forget.