The Pragmatic Programmer challenges developers to learnanew language a year; notbecause the landscapeisconstantlychangingbutbecauselearningnewlanguages exposes developers to new paradigms.
At the risk of sounding motherly, I will admit that she was always brilliant and personable, butconstantly looked for reasons as to why she should be cubbyholed into learning only what educators deemed important along the way.