it is hard to argue against the many benefits of a true object orientated language
Agreed, for the right task - programming languages are like aeroplanes, you choose the right one to suit the current mission.
I personally would prefer not to hire any programmer to write any language if they have never done any assembler. I don't expect them to be current at
writing the stuff, just a few weeks at university twenty years ago is fine, the point is that people who don't know how a computer works can't always understand why given two similar looking lines of code in a moderm high level language one of them runs a million times slower than the other one.
But then I personally would prefer not to hire any programmer without some sort of typing qualification. The ones who can type properly are much more likely to write decent documentation and comments than the ones who have to look at the keyboard and/or only use a few fingers.
I generally fail to get people to take me seriously on these two points
