Since RiderOfGiraffes is not around any more, I'll point out that this has been on HN a couple of times before, with some interesting discussion: http://news.y

Since RiderOfGiraffes is not around any more, I'll point out that this has been on HN a couple of times before, with some interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407796 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407796 I'm still sympathetic to the author's plight because my experiences have been similar. After learning Python and Haskell (and Clojure) and then returning to Java, I find myself missing features like first class functions and list comprehensions and so on. It's hard coming to terms with the fact that you're back in Blub and having to cram your thinking back into that box. It isn't so much becoming a worse programmer as becoming a more frustrated programmer.