Should I learn Openedge as a C# programmer

[Bas Jansen]

We have an Progress OpenEdge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_4GL) develop team in the company I work for. I'm the only c# developer there and really like it. So now the manager asks me to learn programming in OpenEdge. He doesn't want me to become a good OpenEdge programmer but he wants the team members to understand both worlds. He hopes the team will benefit from this. I'm not unwilling to learn but I want to become a better developer and there are so many more aspects of .Net I like to discover. So are there there any good point about Progress OpenEdge I would profit from or should I stay away from it.

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