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> Even top notch programmers like Carmack and Torvalds have a favorite language.

Yes, true, but they're not married to their choice.



After they're programmed for 20+ years in the language, and with them considered job offers or projects based on the language use, when exactly it's not considered "married"?


> ... when exactly it's not considered "married"?

Easy to test on a case-by-case basis -- either a person can or can't drop one language and become productive in another in a short time. If they can, then they're not married to a single language, unlike cybernetic swans who mate for life.


Well, what if Torvalds can't get productive in Lisp or Haskell? Does that make him any less of a programmer?




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