I would generally agree about C style languages, with the caveat that most good programmers will be familiar with a wide variety of languages, environments and coding patterns. Good programming is about problem solving and analysis, principles that are largely language agnostic.

MEL maybe on its way out now, but 7-8 years ago this was not the case. Who cans say what role python will be playing in 7-8 years time? Programmers need to be able to adapt accordingly.

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