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> A good programmer can be good in any language

Well, I’ll rewrite it in Brainfuck then.

I think I meant more like "every language can have good programmers writing top quality code in it, even (especially) the blubs", not that a given good programmer will be able to immediately translate their expertise to a vastly different language or environment.

Part of your expertise is not the language, but the application to embedded platforms.

Of course, but the point stands.

Consider an expert in C programming for embedded platforms, and an expert in Ada (or Forth) programming for embedded platforms. The surrounding expertise is similar, but the language-specific expertise shouldn't be dismissed.