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I don't actually disagree but you could find similar criteria and write a similar piece for the vast majority of "professional" programming languages, including

I don't actually disagree but you could find similar criteria and write a similar piece for the vast majority of "professional" programming languages, including e.g. Python, JS, and C++, so this is kinda silly. "Computing is a pop culture" remains true, and the existence of this article in a magazine like Wired is a perfect example of that.

falcor84 10mo ago
Absolutely agreed, and this gives me another opportunity to post the wonderful "Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...