You're really arguing that someone with a bachelor's degree is equivalent to one of the foremost researchers in the field, who oh by the way has a Nobel Prize i

You're really arguing that someone with a bachelor's degree is equivalent to one of the foremost researchers in the field, who oh by the way has a Nobel Prize in Economics? We're not talking about "opinions on programming languages", we're talking about science. And if we're going to argue over CS, I'll take Knuth over any 30 year old with a BSCS.