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Hello, World: Programming Languages for the Polyglot Developer

Command Line Heroes

CHAPTER

The Psychology of Computer Programmers

Clive Barker: Why are there so many programming languages? Each language has sort of a bias of things that it's that it's good at. He says people keep on finding a reason, a reason to do something no one else can do. But what do people do when they have the choice? And this is where you really see how the sort of emotional or psychological style of someone gravitates towards a language.

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