Contempt Culture - The Particular Finest
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So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages
Contempt Culture So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages sucked , the people using them were losers or stupid , if they would just use a real language , such as the one we used, everything would just be better . Right? This sort of culturally-encoded language was really prevalent around condemning PHP and Java. Developers in these languages were actively referred to as less competent than developers in the other, more blessed languages. And at the time, as a new developer, I internalise
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