>1972: Using Anything Other Than Assembly Will Make You a Bad Programmer 1995: Using a Language with a Garbage Collector Will Make You a Bad Programmer Both of

>1972: Using Anything Other Than Assembly Will Make You a Bad Programmer 1995: Using a Language with a Garbage Collector Will Make You a Bad Programmer Both of these remain true to today, which is why we always interview people at one layer below the requirement of the job so they know what they’re doing. Writing C/C++ - know how the output looks like. Using GC-based languages? Know the cleanup cycle (if any). I would wager the third also holds true.