Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.