As someone who&#x27;s primarily worked in ops engineering I&#x27;ve mostly worked with scripting languages and DSLs (bash, puppet, etc) and cobbled together ruby&#x2F;Python as required but my strength has never been in programming. I picked up someone&#x27;s tutorial on Elixir thinking it would be as mind bendingly mathematical as when I looked at Haskell but I was quite taken back - it seemed to make sense to my fickle mind and I found I could quite enjoyably read most basic examples &#x2F; tutorials with no experience or documentation (also within reason). For me it had the humanised beauty(?) of ruby and logical power of Python without as many &#x27;wtf does that do?&#x27; moments. I don&#x27;t have a lot of use for Elixir in my job (yet), but I am tempted to learn a little.<p>Am I ignorant because I don&#x27;t have a programming mindset or &#x27;real&#x27; language experience?