On learning

Mike Vanier writes:

As somebody who loves to learn new programming languages and paradigms, I hate to admit this, but one of the biggest reasons bad languages persist is that most people hate learning new programming languages. They would rather stick to a shitty language that they more-or-less understand than take the one month or so to become familiar with a new language. This is an example of a very, very general phenomenon both in computing and elsewhere, which is that nobody ever wants to learn anything new.