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I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.

I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.

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[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 weeks ago

Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

John Carmack

He's great indeed. Thanks for the reference.

Also what he says about LISP reminds me of The Bipolar LISP Programmer article.

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