"..'closed minded' thinking only in terms of not choosing to learn rather than any intolerance.."
Sorry, that was all I meant as well. Intolerance in the sense of 'intolerant of the pains required to learn programming'. There's no negative connotation to that sense, I think.
At the risk of going around in circles, I was referring to all the subconscious reasons people fail to get going with programming, rather than any conscious intolerance.
I actually wasn't thinking of arc at all. You can probably find better first languages (though having the compiler open in a split window is a unique selling point). But it doesn't seem worth optimizing beyond a point. Just pick one and keep going. The test of a first language is not whether you hate it after a while, but whether you keep programming in some language.
