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Most of us do not really have a choice in which language to learn. But I think that some of the old or very old languages (e.g. Pascal, Cobol, Algol, Fortran, etc.) are so much documented, and are so easy to start with, that a lot of programmers will see this as a natural way to educate yourself.

If you do have a choice, I fully support your strategy. If you do not have a choice, it's a different ball game. What would interest me is a training as 'add-on', e.g. php for Cobol-programmers, etc. Because knowing one language will mostly lure us (including myself) to just start another language without proper training or documentation. An idea for a new column Justin?
Regards, Martin