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People have a right to their opinion, and people have a right to oppose other's opinions. I question whether people have a right to continue to argue about such
by kordless 10y ago
People have a right to their opinion, and people have a right to oppose other's opinions. I question whether people have a right to continue to argue about such an opinion in a way that spreads virally, however.
One good technique for spreading irrationality virally is to ask leading questions which continue the "debate" about something that really isn't that important. We have programming languages, they are often times hard to learn, and learning new ones, or making new ones, is something only a subset of the programming aggregate can and are willing to do. i.e. It's an important topic for a few, but for the rest of humanity, it really doesn't matter that much day to day. (Which is not to say a new language might eventually be useful to all, but that argument itself is irrational given it may occur in the future.)
I'm only calling out this argument here because I find this general viral behavior is occurring around other concepts in a way that is creating inefficiencies in communication channels - something we didn't really intend when building the Internet.
- wry_discontent 10y ago> something that really isn't that important. I agree with you. This isn't something that needs a big discussion. "Do we have too many languages? Should we cut some of them?" But I think the common response of "oh god, here we go again" is unproductive and, frankly, stupid. It reflects something about the community. I'm not asking you to use my toy language to build the Next Greatest Enterprise Application (TM). I just made something cool, and maybe you can use it to make something cool too.