Let me prove your axiom wrong with a counterexample. I love these games, and I can program (and have shipped to prod) in over a dozen languages including Erlan

Let me prove your axiom wrong with a counterexample. I love these games, and I can program (and have shipped to prod) in over a dozen languages including Erlang, Haskell, C++, C, Common Lisp, Java, Clojure, Scala. What you're saying is nonsense. Practice in programming is practice in programming. If we wanted to, we could make the TIS-100 system real for embedded computing and I bet it'd be popular with some instruction extensions. I did an annex course at a local middle school with TIS-100 to teach kids that programming is fun. It went over well.