Let's be honest: 75-90% of programmers use terrible languages to write terrible software -- internal applications in vendor-supplied crap languages. They're not

Let's be honest: 75-90% of programmers use terrible languages to write terrible software -- internal applications in vendor-supplied crap languages. They're not special, they understand little more than a few complex if/then/else blocks, and they're the vast majority of programmers. </quote> Hear, hear