Dan Luu on Nostr: Joel Spolsky, the next big programming thought leader after the Brooks era, has an ...

Joel Spolsky, the next big programming thought leader after the Brooks era, has an entire essay about how teaching people Java instead of C allows stupid programmers who couldn't hack it in C to get a degree.

At the time, you also often heard that real programmers didn't write "scripting languages" like perl/python/ruby/etc., at least not for serious code.

If you look at successful startups from just after Joel's anti-Java anti-HLL polemic, a lot of them were created on ruby or python.