I think this survey is dumb. How do we know the first question is not really a "do you think the light-skinned engineer is better than the dark skinned one?" A

I think this survey is dumb. How do we know the first question is not really a "do you think the light-skinned engineer is better than the dark skinned one?" Also: Any potential client that would rank an engineer's quality based on his programming language alone, is a client to stay away from. These would be the execs who read a magazine in a flight and suddenly think they know how programming works. So who cares if your language (assuming you are a one language person, which is a different topic onto itself) is perceived as "bad"? There are many world-class engineers that code in shitty languages, or languages that are full of shitty programmers. Programming language alone proves nothing. I think all of this is just some more skippable junk being added to the web. For the sake of argument, let's assume that yes, you are perceived to be a better programmer based on your language. What happens after that very first impression? Can you show yourself to be an incompetent ass after stating your flashy language? What if you smell bad? What if you have an annoying voice, or an obnoxious laugh? Junk, I tell you! This is useless junk.