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In Italian we have a saying that roughly translates as “To know an artist, study his art”.

One of the things that annoys me most (and I'm not a professional programmer, and I'm definitely not ‘hip’ as I'm out of the software industry and about as far from the geographical epicentre of the software industry as can be), is the ever-present Hacker News (and elsewhere) commentary to the effect that “nice, but I wouldn't have used $LANG to build this project”, totally ignoring the fact that the developer in question actually got his act together and started working (for free, for everybody) with the tools he knows and prefers for the task.