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What if I want to use another language precisely because I'm passionate about programming and therefore have strong opinions about which languages and tools are

What if I want to use another language precisely because I'm passionate about programming and therefore have strong opinions about which languages and tools are best? For example, there's a long thread at Lambda the Ultimate ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3905 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3905 ) mostly lamenting this development. This is a site filled with Ph.D programming language researchers. Do you think they are upset because they are too lazy to learn a new language?

csmeder 17y ago
<devils advocate>You can still do this on Android. Apple is private company, sell you stock and stop making apps for the iPhone. And I guess continue telling how bad apple is for doing this. Encourage people to buy androids. </devils advocate> In the long run is this move bad for Hackers? or is just what we need? Could it mean a big push for Android (opensource) development? Which one could argue is good for Hackers. Maybe its good Apple is putting a bitter taste in hackers mouth. Apple just went from being a beautiful Siren[1] to a beautiful dangerous woman with a bad singing voice. At my college every year I would see more and more people show up to the LUG meetins with macs. Maybe we will see a pendulum swing back to where most Hackers hack on linux. [1]"In Greek mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses." Wikipedia