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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> There is very little in what passes for computing these days that I can 
> stand to look at. Most of what would be required to "expand ones skill set" 
> would require checking my brain at the door and making unmaintainable 
> mash-ups of stuff that will stop working in a week (not the 20 years I want 
> to run a program).

Give Haskell a try, http://haskell.org .  It is the most mind-expanding
thing that I've ever done as a programmer.  And its type system makes
Ada's look weak and primitive.