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by nanotone 6060 days ago
Agreed. One of the most important skills I picked up in college was not the ability to code in whatever the hot language du jour was, but the ability to learn a new language quickly, and to pick out its important characteristics: Garbage collection? Dynamic typing? Closures?

After that, yes, it's nice to be fluent in a fast, productive language like Python, and to understand a lower-level one like C.