> I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world". Those are your words, not mi

> I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world". Those are your words, not mine. My comparison wasn't about ignorance but of a different value system that is consistently substituted in discussions about programming languages and the substitution is then swept under the rug. The substitution being as I said theoretical concision and expression vs more easily understandable boilerplate and pragmatism.