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Blub programmer telling why you should program in Blub.

Almost everyone is a Blub programmer, including pg who coined the term:

The interesting thing about Blub programmers is that they do not know they are Blub programmers.

Indeed. Python is my Blub; it's just so darn easy and it has enough functional capabilities that I haven't yet felt compelled to throw out everything I know and start with Haskell or Clojure.

The interesting thing about Blub programmers is that they do not know they are Blub programmers.

Even more interesting: Even those who know about the above phenomenon and make meta-comments on it are Blub programmers and do not know that they don't know this. </mega-irony>

I am a Haskell programmer, and aware of the more powerful abstractions available in Agda and similar languages. So I am aware of my Blubness :-)

But I try to keep up to date with regards to PL technologies, so I think I'm closer to the top of the contemporary Blub ladder, but I guess any Blub programmer might think that!

Darn iPad! That was meant to be </meta-irony>

My Blub is Smalltalk, and I'm proud to claim it as such.

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