Love it. Many years ago I read some advice somewhere to "learn a new language each year". And while I'm something of a language junkie, I never actually stuck to that. But lately I've been getting more aggressive again about adding new languages to my repertoire. In 2016 I spent a lot of time with R and Octave, and started brushing up on Python again.
Going into 2017, I've started spending a lot of time on Prolog just recently, and am hoping to spend some serious time on Scala and Figaro soon.
How valuable all this is from a career standpoint can be hard to quantify, but if nothing else it's just plain fun to learn new approaches and new languages.
Going into 2017, I've started spending a lot of time on Prolog just recently, and am hoping to spend some serious time on Scala and Figaro soon.
How valuable all this is from a career standpoint can be hard to quantify, but if nothing else it's just plain fun to learn new approaches and new languages.