It's nice to see number 5. >Be promiscuous with languages >I hate language wars. ... you're arguing about the wrong thing. It's easy to take this for granted

It's nice to see number 5. >Be promiscuous with languages >I hate language wars. ... you're arguing about the wrong thing. It's easy to take this for granted, but it's a concept that is very important to stress to new coders. If you spend too much time focusing on one language you run the risk of the form becoming the logic . This is a dangerous place where your work can be better analogized to muscle memory than to logical thought. At least in a college environment, I think this lack of plasticity causes discomfort with different representations of similar logic - and so flame wars abound.