> I don't know how else to describe people who don't resent being second-class citizens under the library designers... One suggestion: describe them as "peopl

> I don't know how else to describe people who don't resent being second-class citizens under the library designers... One suggestion: describe them as "people who have a different opinion than I do", rather than automatically concluding that anyone who doesn't feel the same way as you do about something must be "mediocre". There are popular languages that I can't stand writing, and languages that I think are badly designed, but I would never be tempted to say that those languages are "for mediocre programmers" just because they don't have the attributes that I look for. As a polyglot, I can definitively say that every language in widespread use is "missing" something in its design that, at first glance, would be glaringly obvious to someone who's used to a different language. If anything, the sign of a good programmer (as opposed to a mediocre one) is the ability to conceptualize why a language might be successful despite (or even because of) this apparent "flaw".