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F�rster vom Silberwald wrote:
>The aformentioned does not weight heavy compared to one fact: Forthers
>really believe that they are in the upper 10 per cent out of a
>population of programmers. That is not a joke: just google in
>comp.lang.forth.
As someone who hires programmers and monitors their output, it
has been my experience that most Forth programmers really *are*
in the upper 10 per cent out of a population of programmers,
just as most VBA programmers are in the lower 50 per cent out
of a population of programmers. There are, of course, exceptions.
I haven't had experience with lisp programmers, but I suspect that
they too are mostly near the top. (I have nothing against lisp,
but it seems a poor choice for 4-bit ebedded processors running
real-time embedded applications.)
In my opinion, the top 1% know more than one language and use the
right tool for the job, and the bottom 1% spend more time flaming
other languages than they do programming.
--
Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>