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Short answer - yes.

But it's more complicated.

You are not supposed to do programmng all day long, but ifbyou don't feel a need to expand beyond what you do at work its one of the following:

1) you work is so great and diversified that you simply get all the programming you could ever need. For most people it's not the case 2) you are already extremely great. I think Linus probably doesn't need to learn yet enother language/framework (although I wouldn't be surprised if he does sometimes). For most people it's also probably not the case 3) you just don't like it that much

For most people that don't program at home (3) is probably the reason.



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