What game? I suppose I was referring to the fact that I jumped on board with using the Microsoft Stack starting with classic ASP when they were well into ASP.N

What game? I suppose I was referring to the fact that I jumped on board with using the Microsoft Stack starting with classic ASP when they were well into ASP.NET 2.0. It was also a reference to the fact that I had one programming class in High School, never went to college and didn't get my first programming gig until I was 26. What really makes you think you have to keep up with the latest technology? Are you just trying to keep up with the other code monkeys, or do you really want to learn something? Very relevant question and something I hadn't paused to consider. At first thought, I'd say it's a little of both which tells me I should really take some time to evaluate that and go from there. Thanks for your suggestion with Lisp as well. As someone else pointed out, it should be more about learning underlying concepts and ideas of programming and less about the language, framework or etc. I would imagine there are some great fundamentals I could learn by taking on a language like Lisp that, as you mentioned, would be well outside my comfort zone.