I don’t think that saying “the article is a rant because it doesn’t make a serious effort to respond to counterguments” qualifies as yelling. As for my point:

I don’t think that saying “the article is a rant because it doesn’t make a serious effort to respond to counterguments” qualifies as yelling. As for my point: in my opinion, the title promised something interesting, but the article didn’t deliver. It acknowledged that the standard committee and compiler writers disagree with its premise, but then simply asserts that the committee and compiler writers are wrong. I put it at DH3 ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ).