And it's better mentally to learn a number of languages so the variety helps to create more seasoned programmers in the long run.
I'm not sure I agree with this, I know there's a huge "Learn a new language at least every fortnight to grow your beard enough to compete with the other flannel wearing, home-brewing, bearded kids at your local food truck", but at the same time I feel there's great value in sticking with a language that's generic enough for lots of stuff, and learning the ins and outs of it. But I'm a C++ nerd, so I guess I can blame myself for loving a language (including the STL) that is nearly impossible to grasp fully.
I do agree that it's great to learn a couple of languages, but when going through university, they pushed one language per course: Java, C++, C, C#, VB.Net, Lisp/Scheme (hurraaah! I might mention that it was quite dead at the time, but lo and behold, the Zombie arises!), Prolog, JavaScript, MatLab, perl, html/css, LaTeX, etc. Python hadn't exploded at the time, nor had Haskell (hence the Scheme I guess, but it was in an AI course, where Scheme was still commonly used, according to the professor).
Sure, some of those languages are just variations of the same thing, and it is easy to learn the difference when knowing one of them, but constantly switching language was more confusing than rewarding. We also constantly had to learn a new framework for doing stuff, which often had us struggling more with the actual language and the proper way of using it (which was probably off by a mile anyway) than focusing on the problem at hand.
I agree that knowing a couple of languages is great, and I don't count XML, HTML/CSS, LaTeX, etc, as languages, but one or two compiled OO-languages (C/C++/C#/Java) combined with a scripting one (Python? Perl? Bash? Perhaps I shouldn't compare Bash to Python...
A friend/colleague of mine goes on daily rants, screaming "Why can't everybody not just program in C++?! It's the best language there is, there's no need for other languages!", but I wouldn't go that far
Well, after writing this, I've noticed that you actually wrote "a number of languages" which can be interpreted as the exact same thing I just wrote. Well, to heck with you all!
Of course you can suspend, I do that several times a day
You just can't resume afterwards...
Men use Gentoo. REAL Men use Linux from scratch. REALLY REAL MEN, write their own OS.
Debian is for wussies. Ubuntu is for wussies who at least have the balls to admit they are wussies.
But what does women use? Not to mention REAL women?
64-bit enthusiasts?
x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.
Hehe tell Adobe that.
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!