Should newbie programmers invest there time in new Languages?
Groxx: "their" time.And as to "new" languages, I'd generally (generally) say no.  A lot of them are under heavy flux, and the people most involved in the community around them are likely going to be the CS-linguists, not the average learning-programmer.That said, if you're looking at language / compiler design, it'd be ideal.  And any programmer with competency in a language or two should branch out a bit into other languages.