The following is my opinion, and from personal experience only. Maybe I am wrong, but this is what I gathered over the years: Being naive and saying things ras

The following is my opinion, and from personal experience only. Maybe I am wrong, but this is what I gathered over the years: Being naive and saying things rashly without solid, scientific backing is a normal thing. It means you are learning the hard way, and learning things in an un-scientific way, or informal way. In college / school / work / The Internet, we are trained to be as scientific about things as possible, because it looks like we worked hard at getting an answer. i.e - We put thought and effort into our question. Sadly, people ask questions indirectly, or subconsciously. So casually saying: "C is an uninteresting language and no longer relevant." Is really you trying to understand programming more, even though it seems like a statement. I am basking in the brilliance of this post. To build on top of what you're saying, @tyre ... Even if you reach the brilliance of your peers, and you attain their level --- There will always be somebody else better than you. I know this from personal experience. I am going to speak about this topic in regard to the coding scene on Github: Take for example hacking/coding/dev. When I first started, I had my role models. Expert coders / dev rockstars / whatever. Then when you reach their skill level, some new guy arrives on the scene and blows everyone away. This happens a lot on The Internet, aswell as in real life. But this competition can also be a good thing. It fosters innovation, because who can tell when you supersede your contemporaries and blow their minds too. I've seen it happen. Little johnny unpopular can skyrocket on Github very quickly, and be respected by his role models, overnight. This is the beauty of the social web.