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Devout Lisp afficianados tend to be a little... opinionated.
by wlievens 11y ago
Devout Lisp afficianados tend to be a little... opinionated.
- arihant 11y agoIt does not matter how we put it. If one is wrong, they are wrong. If one is "opinionated" and he/she is wrong, they will fail. It hasn't helped Lisp's cause that a majority of its promoters are heavily opinionated.
- pizza 11y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_rule > If the prior probability assigned to a hypothesis is 0 or 1, then, by Bayes' theorem, the posterior probability (probability of the hypothesis, given the evidence) is forced to be 0 or 1 as well; no evidence, no matter how strong, could have any influence.
- DonaldFisk 11y agoThis is true because Devout ?x aficionados tend to be a little... opinionated. I've met plenty of devout Prolog, C, C++, and Java aficionados, and yes, they're opinionated. Also, you're more likely to notice opinions that differ from your own than ones you agree with, these are more likely to be held by groups you don't belong to, and you're less likely to belong to minority groups, such as Lisp programmers.
- bubtubgub 11y ago> I've met plenty of devout Prolog aficionados No you haven't.
- DonaldFisk 11y agoI can understand your incredulity, but yes, I have. They even called themselves "the Prolog mafia". This was in the early 1990s. I like Prolog, and regret that it's hardly used nowadays.