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Originally posted by Nightwork
Programming isn't about knowing a language, programming is all about being able to think with a certain logic and within certain structures.
For a good programmer it's peanuts to learn a new language, as it's just getting familiair with a new language's syntax (which usually already looks familiair if the language itself looks any good, hehe.) and finding out language relative common pitfalls.
Problem with most "programmers" is that they just jump into a language and learn themselves a few tricks. 8 out of 10 times I see some webscript (also professional scripts, sold at outragious prices) I simply start crying. Most of the time it works but the amount of ductape needed to keep it together is normally more than the lines of code used.
So before even starting to program or learning it, read some stuff about database architecture, software architecture (multitier environments, objectorientation), security and go through some old mathbooks from back in school.
Being a programmer it doesn't matter which language is hot or easy, if a client requests, you can do the tricks.
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Although you're partly right, knowing specific languages is more important than you make it seem. It saves loads of time in trying to find standard functions that do what you want.