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Not necessarily. Sometimes discipline and planning is what sparks creativity. In resolute, complete understanding one can truly expound on the discipline which one has devoted oneself.
Though I completely agree with pursuing deep understanding. I feel far too many people fail to attempt this 
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Rather than the programming languages it is framework "tyranny" that is the problem.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Lisp
Ah, but which Lisp? There is Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure, Racket, AutoLisp,...
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At the risk of being branded a heretic, I'll provide my perspective.
About 10 years back, I knew someone that worked in the organization I'm currently at. At the time, they were pushing for all development to be done in Java if possible and many of the applications were going to be rewritten in Java. The reason? Microsoft was pushing for all developers to have a licensed copy of Visual Studio - and with thousands of people in the IT department, that was the potential of thousands of people needing a licensing copy in the event they were required to write/modify code.
Java was growing in popularity and this seemed like a cost saving measure for the organization.
Fast forward to now...it would seem that most of the development is being done in C# and there seems to be a pool of developers that is competent in that arena. Java has fallen out of favor; perhaps the organization realized that there is more to cost than just licensing fees.
Now, for my department, most of the people are engineers or technicians - not trained developers. We are administrators on a large data collection system, so, when we write code, is needs to be in a language/environment that is supportable by the group, and, for us, that isn't C#.
So.. we have a mix of Perl scripts, VBA in Excel and VB.NET because it is close enough to VBA that others can maintain it.
If we allowed people in our group to use the 'latest greatest most wonderful tool I'm in love with' we would end up like the organization the article writer left - with code that can't be maintained and is destined for obscurity.
In short.. use what can be maintained long term regardless of its social standing.
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I long ago decided that COM stifles creativity, along with Linux 
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More than 90% of online populations now incorporate emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails, and researchers are wondering what the use of (~_^), (>_<), or =D can reveal about human behavior. I wonder what these studies have to say about human behaviour
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...because the scientists are dumb... 
...because someone is dumb enough to fund it...
Why do people use smileys? Because smiles make the world go around! 
Here, have another!
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Yes, because before there were emojis and computers, people never doodled or drew smiles in their snail mail. What's a picture worth, again?
Doodling is the oldest form of written communication, for ****'s sake. Go visit the pyramids.
The entire Chinese language (of which the Japanese use a cheap knock-off) is made up of doodles. How is an emoji any different to every other word in their languages?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...and researchers are wondering how to get more free money, I mean...
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Google Contributor, the service that let you pay fractions of pennies to remove Google-served ads from websites, is being shut down in mid-January 2017. When you have to Google the service they're shutting down, I guess there's a reason
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Google has ads? I learned something new.
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People have always questioned whether money can buy happiness. But does the rise or fall of your paycheck change the workplace factors that are most important to you? I'm willing to experiment on this
In one direction, anyway
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Well, derrrrrrr.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The joy from a raise lasts about one paycheck, but job satisfaction rules thereafter; until the next raise, of course.
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Except when you go years without a well deserved pay raise, yet the company is booking profits left and right.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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However, as today’s trends quickly bleed into tomorrow’s standards for development, it’s paramount that software architects become change agents within their organizations by putting into practice the “unspoken” side of their skill set: communication and people skills. It's how to lie with a whiteboard, isn't it?
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Facebook CEO says he'd "never even heard of ZeniMax before" trial. I'd say a $2Billion bet is pretty confident
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Or was it $3 Billion?
Facebook's price tag for Oculus actually $3 billion, Zuckerberg reveals in court testimony[^]
 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's a lot of money for a technology that's been "the next big thing" for at least the last 20 years. And just serves to make people nauseous.
TTFN - Kent
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"Zuckerberg told the court he was unaware of whether Oculus founder Palmer Luckey signed an nondisclosure agreement with ZeniMax, nor did he know of one of Oculus' co-founders Nate Miller getting information from ZeniMax."
Seems Zuckerberg may have some explaining to do to stockholders. (And we know Zuckerberg stole Facebook from Lyle.)
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Google's Infrastructure Security Design Overview document details how the company secures the servers it uses internally and for cloud services. "Laser-based intrusion detection systems". Quick, call Tom Cruise!
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A fired IT employee took his revenge on a for-profit online college before he left, changing a password on an account that stored email and course material for 2,000 students, the Indianapolis-based online school has alleged in a lawsuit. I bet that's not going on his resume
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You'd think one of the students would have already cracked it.
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