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That philosophy sounds like one that will cause you to wake up one day and realize your skill set is massively out if date.

Python 3, scala, and pearl all give you new ways of solving a problem. You're missing out on a lot of super cool stuff by not exploring! Outside of maybe library support, I see no reason to not to at least check out python 3.

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Fair point. But I'd like to quote my own post above:

>I rarely write anything high language besides small scripts. Python 2 does the job. If I ever were to need

>functionality of another language, great, it's fun to learn something new. Our time is limited and we must

>prioritize. Sadly we cannot invest time to learn everything (well I guess it's possible, but I rather be

>awesome in four languages than mediocre in twenty).

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