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> Best strategy for becoming a high paying/good software engineer would be to think of yourselves as problem solver and language as just one of the tool for problem solving.

Some languages contort and constrain your thinking in bad or silly ways.

> Thinking of yourselves as someone who is a writer of a certain programming language is self constarining and missing the point.

I find this view tends to lead to only using popular languages anyway because you don't seek out any specific language, so the effect of this belief itself is self-constraining.



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