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by amalcon 4969 days ago
Thinking differently is the big one, but not the only one. There are places where one language has tangible advantages over another. Knowing more languages helps with the "When all you have is a hammer" problem.

I will never use C++ to parse text files when I have Perl available. On the other hand, I shudder to think what most C++ software I've seen would look like in Perl.