In case anyone is inclined to go read the article, let me (potentially) save you a click with the following excerpts from it: > the last thing many male comput

In case anyone is inclined to go read the article, let me (potentially) save you a click with the following excerpts from it: > the last thing many male computer scientists entering the field wanted was to make the field easier to enter or code easier to read, which might undermine their claims to professional and “scientific” expertise. > Take the C programming language: it was created in 1972, but as one of the current COBOL programmers I interviewed pointed out, nobody makes fun of it or calls it an “old dead language” > There’s an old joke among programmers: “If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.” > it’s perhaps no wonder that a committee-designed language meant to be easier to learn and use And, of course, the quote from the comment to which I'm replying: > many people don’t even see the preference for complex languages for what it is: an attempt to protect one’s status by favoring tools that gate-keep rather than those that assist newcomers. If any of these quotes even resembles something you _might_ think about this field, maybe you'll get something out of reading the whole article. Personally, these quotes are so backwards to me that the author could just as well have written "Programmers can breathe under water" or "grass is the cornerstone of a well balanced diet".