James Hague writes some great observations in his post Recovering From a Computer Science Education. Many of which I’ve had to undo myself.
If you find yourself repeatedly putting down a technology, then take some time to actually learn and use it. All the jokes and snide remarks aside, Perl is tremendously useful. Ditto for PHP and Java and C++. Who wins, the person who has been slamming Java online for ten years or the author of Minecraft who just used the language and made tens of millions of dollars?
The latter part of this quote strikes close to home. As a partner at RANDOMTYPE I’ve really had to focus on creating value for our company and not just chasing the shiny. As well, the quote also exemplifies a sub-category of cargo-culting. That is, programmers picking on a language because they’ve heard/seen others do it.