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Should programmers be language independent?

As a software engineer I work with Java every day, and I enjoy the challenge of learning what the language has to offer. Although, there are those weeks when I envy the ease with which Rob, our systems architect, is able to whip out some crazy complex functionality using Ruby on Rails. This puts me in a bit of a pickle, and I am ill at ease. My goal this quarter is to learn the basic underpinnings of Ruby on Rails, but I have the sneaking suspicion that I have yet to master a mere tenth of Java’s core functionality.

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