Ehhhn, there's nothing new under the sun. There may not have been as many language religious wars among most people back then, but there were definitely machine

Ehhhn, there's nothing new under the sun. There may not have been as many language religious wars among most people back then, but there were definitely machine religious wars. I didn't have a computer in the 80s. I started learning programming in the mid-90s. There were huge religious wars over languages at the time, and it was basically C versus anyone who dared try anything that wasn't C. I remember being told I wasn't a "real" programmer because I would often use VB, Java, and--heaven forbid--JavaScript for things that didn't require the All The Speed. I still did C, but I wasn't singularly dedicated to it, thus I was apparently just a "scripter". From my perspective, I didn't care if I was a "programmer" or a "scripter". I was "productive". In terms of dogma in my own time, things have gotten a lot better. You do still occasionally find people who will make wild claims like "HTML isn't a real programming language", insisting that there is some definition of "real programming languages", despite PLT specialists telling them there isn't. But they are very few and far between these days, and they tend to be hold-overs from the old times.