Re:The Elite Programming Language Fallacy
by nandemo on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:05AM
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I agree with vessenes, the article is vaguely strawman-ish.
What pg says in Python Paradox is not "all Python programmers are elite hackers" but rather that -- when he wrote the article -- the percentage of good hackers in the Pythonista population was higher than in the Java-programmer population.
Again, the point is not that learning Python automatically makes you a better programmer. It's that people who are great programmers or are interested in being better programmers are more likely to go and learn a non-mainstream language.
What pg says in Python Paradox is not "all Python programmers are elite hackers" but rather that -- when he wrote the article -- the percentage of good hackers in the Pythonista population was higher than in the Java-programmer population.
Again, the point is not that learning Python automatically makes you a better programmer. It's that people who are great programmers or are interested in being better programmers are more likely to go and learn a non-mainstream language.