The actual writing of code is the easy part of programming; it's the conceptual solving of problems that is difficult. If you think in terms of any particular l

The actual writing of code is the easy part of programming; it's the conceptual solving of problems that is difficult. If you think in terms of any particular language, you are limited by those terms. Possibly, he's partly upset about the type of problems that he'd be solving in those languages, rather than the languages themselves.