"What you're essentially stating is more experience is detrimental."
It's not so simple. Not all experience is equal. Some folks have 10 years of experience developing software. Others have one year of experience, repeated 10 times.
It's not so simple. Not all experience is equal. Some folks have 10 years of experience developing software. Others have one year of experience, repeated 10 times.
In the end, they are essentially performing the 11th time.
Also, while Perl's standard OOP, is a bit of a hack on top of the language, it helped me really understand what was going on, unlike Java, where a lot of these things are like a black box.
Maybe I should have emphasized learning a second language with a different / multiple paradigms.
(Saying that when I later moved to a job using Visual Basic 6, I didn't feel like I learned much).
While there are (small) values that one can get out of Java => Perl, being dynamic and functional, your experience seems seasonal (hashes, maps, etc). I felt that these days if one wants to learn algorithms and data structure, Java Collection libraries and Guava seem to be the defining standard.
I don't disagree if one is learning Erlang to write scalable message queue coming from Rails. But I definitely disagree if one is learning another programming language and ended up coding the basic web-app, which seems to be the case these days.