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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A scary story from the real world.
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:03:13 -0800, Jerry wrote:

> "...I don't believe in it." Aha--now we're getting somewhere. Language
> choice is apparently like religion, based on a belief system. People's
> choice of religion is almost always the religion in which they were
> born into. It must be the same for programming languages. But religion
> is inherently belief-based whereas programmers take pride in being
> logical and rational. So why _do_ programmers act as though language
> choice is a belief system?

Because programming language is a thought system. It is much
self-sufficient. Once one gets into such system he loses most of his
ability to judge rationally about it while staying within it.

> I wish some smart psychologist would do research on the propagation
> over decades of crappy languages as the first choice of most
> programmers.

add here crappy OSes, crappy CPU architectures, crappy software... There is
a natural law of Growing Crappiness. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de