>>I think that there are two sides to this. If you have the choice to only learn/use one tool great, but when you don't have the choice, what is wrong with having mulitple languages in your toobox?
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>IMHO, multiple is too much (3 up), two languages is acceptable as norm where you have high probability of being an expert therefore you can create high quality software apps. Learning too many languages for purposes of trying to stay competitive hurts rather than helps us unaware. That's why deciding what tool to learn in addition to what you have is very crucial. I say LEARN... meaning trying to gain expertise and not just shallow understanding about the language.

Yes, that's how I see it too.

cheers

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>>>Hi David,
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>>>A Long time ago, I wrote a Z80 compiler and a text game in Turbo Pascal, wrote a scalar expression calculator in C++, wrote a graphical editor in assembly. I managed to get the job done in with my language independed programming skills, but aside from Z80 assembly I never mastered the other languages.
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>>>Today, I mastered SQL, Crystal Reports and VFP, while doing some C/C++ from time to time (though I'm not too comfortable in this). However, I think it does not make sense to learn too many additional languages. Just master one (at a time) and don't spend a lot of time in the other but earn your bread with it.
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>>>Walter,