Programmers and Ponte

I have been doing programming for a long time and all the time I notice the same mistake that even very professional and respected gurus make (I won’t show it with my finger, otherwise they will be offended). This error is peculiar to all males - they are greedy to show off.

This is manifested in everything: in the choice of frameworks, programming languages, the use of super-duper cool software development techniques, in short, everything that allows any form-slap professional to feel cooler than others. It's a shame that often because of this they lose a lot.
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On the one hand, this seems to be a good thing - since show off, fashion and progress often go hand in hand, this allows you to constantly evolve, learn something new, but on the other hand, very useful and convenient tools are often ignored because that they are considered bespontovymi.

I will give a classic example of the influence of Ponte on the choice of tool.

Guess why VB.NET is significantly inferior to C # by prevalence? Due to the fact that he is something worse? .. Do not guess. In general, he is not inferior to him at all, or rather even much more comfortable in many things.

For example, try to imagine how such a demo piece of code will look like in C #:



In braces you will get confused.

However, more bespontovogo tool than BASIC is difficult to imagine. And this is his huge minus. Only here, if we ignore Ponte, then from this moment some advantages begin (VBA and scripts with the same syntax, good readability, etc.). It turns out that this is quite a modern, convenient and powerful programming language.

I am not writing this in order to arrange a holivar here, but it would just be interesting to look at other examples. First of all, in order not to fall into such traps, as it is difficult at first glance to figure out what's what. Since I myself am very fond of such things (I repent) I would like to know someone else's opinion and see other examples. Maybe someone in the comments will write about sore. You look, someone will come enlightenment.