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by chr13 4614 days ago
I guess you summed it up. Indeed having more depth in a language is very important and useful, I was just trying to make a point that these aren't the only things. Here is how I perceive a language,

It is made up of syntax and behaves in a certain way. If you read the documented features you'll know all of it. There may be some undocumented things which may not be of utmost importance. However, this is just the base of programming. And when you start dealing with 5-6 languages you can forget things if you don't have a good memory but the good thing is it's all documented and known features. Whereas while programming, one can often be involved in solving unknown problems, which can't be figured out just by googling.