This fallacy props up surprisingly often. We should not treat programming language writers as a separate class of people from programming language users. We oft

This fallacy props up surprisingly often. We should not treat programming language writers as a separate class of people from programming language users. We often have the same needs and require the same solutions. My Master's adviser joked that every company ends up implementing their very own ad hoc, poorly designed programming languages to meet their specific needs. After working in the industry for almost a decade I've seen the truth of this joke. A lot of the problem comes from the kind of thinking that would say "this adage applies to programming language writers, not users."