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> and Lisp or Smalltalk or Forth or Erlang, can be the final step

Nah. Final boss programmers (Fabrice Bellard, Mike Pall, etc.) work in C. (Or maybe sometimes a bit of C++.)



For systems works maybe.

Most impressive application programs and games I've seen were in C++.

But I've seen boss programmers do wonders in all kinds of languages. Didn't this Notch guy make 2.5 billion in a game he wrote in Java?


Notch is in no way a "final boss programmer". (In fact, him being a successful businessman clearly points to the fact that he isn't.)




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