I am commenting on this story here...
This is for Michael most especially but for my other code-wielders as well. This story was obviously written by a programmer who had become a journalist and not vice versa. Why do I say this?
"Over time, you'd expect that as developers get older, they'd get more wisdom; they'd learn more languages," Meyerovich says. "We've found that's not true. They plateau."
Why would you expect that? Do you expect people to generally learn more languages as they get older? This is not logical as I understand the term any more than it is logical to read this statement:
"There's a tendency in academics of trying to solve a problem when no one actually ever had that problem," said Rabkin, who recently received his computer science PhD at Berkeley and is now at Princeton working on a post-doc.
This is how academics work. Now quite a bit of amazing innovation has come from this supposition, but so has a vast ocean of navel gazing. So it is completely possible that this story was written by someone with no real exposure to academics either.
One huge issue that the author leaves out is the fact that college and university professors write the textbooks, and they don't want to constantly have to relearn something that they can more easily teach by rote.
Also, C is the lingua franca. This is important. Airline pilots use English, Chefs usually have a working knowledge of French. This allows a free flow of ideas between people who cannot usually communicate.
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