Quote Originally Posted by Alsvha
... show up at an medical equipment development company and talk about style sheets...
Hey they put sheets on lots of medical equipment (to isolate the patient from the cold metal), no reason they shouldn'y have style.

Quote Originally Posted by Alsvha
... However, with the speed tools and languages/framework can evolve today, the fundamentals are way more important then actual language specific syntax in my opinion.
This really gets hard to separate. Consider the differences caused by a garbage collected environment. Without GC, it may be better to hold a reference to an object you will need later, but in a GC environment, it may be more cost effective to do double object creation.

ps: This is actually the basis for one of my Sr. Developer Interview Subjects.