I think that it makes more sense to "rate" programmers not by the tools they use but by the problems they solve. If I met someone who showed me a system he prog

I think that it makes more sense to "rate" programmers not by the tools they use but by the problems they solve. If I met someone who showed me a system he programmed that was capable of language recognition and disambiguation but told me it was programmed in COBOL, I think it would be really silly to laugh in the programmer's face because of the language choice. I'd ask some ?'s to be sure, but ultimately it's a matter of what the programmer feels most comfortable and productive in. Since I have not yet delivered a human-equivalent AI system, I'm not really in a position to judge someone who has based on how they decided to do it. tl; dr - tools don't garner respect, problems do.