[pudakai]

I don't think that 1 person in 1000 could do what i do no matter how many ruby/clojure classes they took.

Sorry if that sounds cocky, but whatever.

Programming is incidental to what I do, which is figure out how to use the deterministic execution of computers combined with the availability of data to solve some problem for somebody. Programming language/architecture considerations are an afterthought for optimizing operations.

This is like suggesting that because one learns how to type/write/spell, all of a sudden one is in competition w/Herman Melville.