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What is the blub conceit? Google searched it and got nothing.

• smosher 13y ago
  The important bit is: As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. 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. From PG's Beating the Averages (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)
• coldtea 13y ago
  A "my language is more expressive than yours" version of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.