>Learning for learning's sake is actually pointless I can't disagree more. Learning latin, ancient greek, french,italian, portuguese and spanish, C C++ JAVA J

>Learning for learning's sake is actually pointless I can't disagree more. Learning latin, ancient greek, french,italian, portuguese and spanish, C C++ JAVA Javascript, ruby python coffescript and groovy, lisp clojure... Studying the patterns help being better user of each language. Consider it a "classic" coding education. Is totally worth the time. Especially because after a while, you see the ideas, the broader picture, not the words or the code. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin