Now, I took a PL course before my working career, so I don't have a frame of reference, but does it really make a difference? Most people judge a language by a

Now, I took a PL course before my working career, so I don't have a frame of reference, but does it really make a difference? Most people judge a language by a) what the syntax looks like and b) what other people say about the language. If you have a formal understanding of programming languages, you can make an actual engineering decision about which language to use instead of being herded from trend to trend with your mouth agape at each marvelous reinvention of old CS concepts.