Why can't we prove the Blub Hypothesis?
cubicle67: I'd interpreted Blub not as any specific language, but rather any language has the capability to become Blub when a developer falls into a particular mindset.To me, a language becomes Blub when the developer using it loses all inclination to look beyond it; to them there's no other language that could offer anything more. They can see language A that is obviously inferior as it doesn't offer feature X, yet at the same time there's no point in learning language B because they see no use in feature Y. After all, they've managed fine for years without it.