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>>But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub. It's not just that he thinks in Blub. He also lives in a Blub bubble. Necessity is the mother of invention. I'm assuming the blub programmer is able to accomplish what he needs to in blub, and his job isn't at risk. In that case, blub will always be good enough. For example, all he might need to accomplish on a daily basis is to add a record to a database, edit a record in a database, and ... wait for it.... delete a record in a database. Blub can do those things! And even a higher level language would probably not make that much difference until you needed to do those things 100x faster than you can in blub (either in bulk or on multiple jitted threads). But the blub programmer wouldn't even be aware of that possibility, let alone consider a different language. This is because, in addition to thinking in blub, he also lives in a blub bubble.
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