John Reimer wrote:
Putting it bluntly, that's also the exact attitude that will distance people from the language. Show disdain for them, and you are guaranteed to alienate people no matter how strong your argument is. That, and such disdain is usually not warranted because it is reactive to a shallow response and fails to recognize the deeper social issues hinted by such a response.
Back in the early DOS days, there was a lot of disdain for the platform. "Real" programmers used unix workstations, not toy 16 bit PCs. It turned out, though, that most of the fortunes were made programming for DOS, and eventually those programs and programmers migrated to 32 bits and brought the industry with it. DOS was the "gateway" programming platform.
