Stumbled upon this yesterday and found it really amusing, given that the author and subject would launch StackOverflow 3 years later. The critiques themselves

Stumbled upon this yesterday and found it really amusing, given that the author and subject would launch StackOverflow 3 years later. The critiques themselves are interesting to read 9 years later, as well. Spolsky's philosophy on exceptions has been vindicated by Go and maybe more so by monadic error handling. His criticism of Java as the introductory language resonates with the ascendance of both the conceptually simpler Python and the more abstract and composable functional languages. On the other hand, Atwood was more on point with Wasabi. It seems to have survived for a long time, but is now being killed off [1]. [1] http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/ http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/