Revisit the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html In short: Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less

Revisit the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html In short: Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub. Interestingly enough, I think the Blub Paradox greatly informs how pg views people too. You can be a "normal person" or you can be a "super smart person." Normal people can't understand super smart people because it's just beyond them. (part of the whole "people aren't created equal—some are just better than everybody else" selectivist philosophy.)