Programming languages shape the way their users think

I kind of checked out on this article once it lumped Go in the same category as OCaml. I mean, they&#x27;re both less kludgy tools than PHP, but... they&#x27;re still so far different in approach and philosophy and style and <i>everything</i> that I had a hard time taking the article seriously after that.

At what point do you recognize that the model you want to be best is not the best? PHP dominates the landscape because it&#x27;s the best tool for a large portion of developers (ostensibly newbies). For being concerned and critical about, computer scientists seem to ignore the data that already exists.

... and then out of those specific tools emerges a meta-cognition of language as an abstract, now retargetable even to the point of easily generating new languages where needed, and also of becoming really fast picking up previously unexplored languages for new problems.

... which is why being multilingual gives you a broader perspective and a wider variety of cognitive tools to solve problems.