The people who become a serious programmer didn't give up. I think this is a real problem with the industry as a whole. I've known a few people who gave up on p

The people who become a serious programmer didn't give up. I think this is a real problem with the industry as a whole. I've known a few people who gave up on programming because they were introduced to it through a language that didn't value their error messages, or that had really bad new programmer failure modes. By "new programmer failure modes" I mean a program that gives no relevant feedback to a new programmer gone wrong.