Paul Graham has an essay discussing what he calls the "Blub paradox." http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html. Perhaps the discuss

Paul Graham has an essay discussing what he calls the "Blub paradox." http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html. Perhaps the discussion there isn't immediately applicable to your question, but I think some aspects of PG's discussion are abstractable and applicable. Ultimately, if you don't know what the other options are and their strengths and weaknesses, you will only ever have a hammer. And you won't even know that your only tool is a hammer. And you'll be trying to eat with it and sew with it, thinking that it's your only option. If your life depends on manipulating bits. You should learn all the ways to manipulating bits. Because you will then know the best way to manipulate a bit in any given situation. Maybe you should be focused more on one than the others, but that doesn't mean you should ignore everything else.