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by RogerL 4004 days ago
Why not? He doesn't need to use it for his work, why would he spend time learning it vs learning something relevant for his field? Oh, I know, to pass a GYMAAAE interview, but that is a pretty bad reason.

There's a universe of programmers that don't work in the LAMP stack (including me) because it doesn't suit what they are trying to accomplish.