So there's that Wat talk by Gary Bernhardt. Pretty funny, I felt at the time it came out - not something to take seriously, of course, just something to blow off some steam.

And then I noticed people starting to take it seriously. It started coming up in discussions, as if it were a legitimate argument about a language being 'bad'. It started being used to attack programmers writing in those languages, and question their competence.

And then Gary Bernhardt himself, the speaker in that talk, turned out to be somewhat of a language-elitist ass.

Since then I've taken a rather more grim view of these kind of overly simplified 'jokes' about programming languages. Because it turns out, they mostly punch down, and quite often they're not really jokes at all, they're just someone looking for an excuse to talk down on others.