[_delirium]

This groupthink is religiously defended through self-righteous blog posts ("I switched from Java to C and became a better person!!!") and comment threads. Inevitably, posters go looking for something that the True Language is known to do well, and then overgeneralize their experience.

I'm not even particularly old, and I ran into this offline first. Go anywhere within 500 feet of a tech meetup, and you'll have people telling you these kinds of conversion stories, overgeneralizing their experience, etc. My first encounter, when I was a high-school student, was with a C-programming graybeard who was sort of religious about C.