"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing"
-- Alan J. Perlis
@fribbledom My that standard, it's worth knowing PHP , JS and Python. Those language changed the way I think about programming. Now I think that programming has devolved into a horrible toxic brew, mostly consisting of people fumbling their way to success by searching SO.
@loke @fribbledom After over 40 years of programming various computers including mainframes, and the past 20 years reversing deliberately obfuscated code in countless DRM protected devices, the choice of programming language matters less for me, it boils down to this: If a piece of hardware can understand the code, so can I given enough time. The closer to bare metal the code is, the better the performance, and the more tedious it is to write, it's a trade-off.
