> Enterprise developers and architects would be the same, regardless of the programming language. This is true to some extent but the reason I focused on cultu

> Enterprise developers and architects would be the same, regardless of the programming language. This is true to some extent but the reason I focused on culture is that there are patterns which people learn and pass on differently in each language. For example, enterprise COBOL programmers didn’t duplicate data in memory to the same extent not only due hardware constraints but also because there wasn’t a culture telling every young programmer that was the exemplar style to follow. I totally agree about C++ having had the same problems but most of the enterprise folks jumped to Java or C# which felt like the community of people writing C++ improved the ratio of performance sensitive developers. Python had a bit of that, especially in the 2000s, but a lot of the Very Serious Architects didn’t like the language and so they didn’t influence the community anywhere near as much. I’m not saying everyone involved are terrible, I just find it interesting how we like to talk about software engineering but there are a lot of major factors which are basically things people want to believe are good.