David Chisnall posits that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to select
I have a very simple problem which just extracts some numbers from files adds it. Well the number of files to be searched currently are around 1600. I implemented this extraction in nearly every language I've used before and got some suprising result