I can't tell you how many times I've heard this, its demoralizing to be basically treated like I'm using tinker toys, moreover I'll be trying to build something

I can't tell you how many times I've heard this, its demoralizing to be basically treated like I'm using tinker toys, moreover I'll be trying to build something in the shell, and told you should do that in perl/python/whatever, because its better/faster/easier - then when I ask for help, as I dont know those languages, I get told to go buy a book.