While actually using your tool of choice is important to mastery, my instincts say that if you're working in a technical field, you probably don't need extra pr

While actually using your tool of choice is important to mastery, my instincts say that if you're working in a technical field, you probably don't need extra practice just for the sake of it. Designing and reading programs are skills which seem to be improved with repetition and persistence more than study. It's also often said that learning many languages of different paradigms makes better programmers.