Toolkits for the Mind

All the programming language wars were not for nothing, /prog/. Languages really shape ur mind:

Programming languages shape the way their users think—which helps explain how tech startups work and why they are able to reinvent themselves.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/536356/toolkits-for-the-mind/

Among programmers, PHP is perhaps the least respected of all programming languages. A now canonical blog post on its flaws described it as “a fractal of bad design,” and those who willingly use it are seen as amateurs. “There’s this myth of the brilliant engineering that went into Facebook,” says Jeff Atwood, co-creator of the popular programming question–and-answer site Stack Overflow. “But they were building PHP code in Windows XP. They were hackers in almost the derogatory sense of the word.” In the space of 10 minutes, Atwood called PHP “a shambling monster,” “a pandemic,” and a haunted house whose residents have come to love the ghosts.