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The author talks about how friendly the Clojure community is in the first paragraph but then goes on to take some silly potshots at other languages in the very
by arst 16y ago
The author talks about how friendly the Clojure community is in the first paragraph but then goes on to take some silly potshots at other languages in the very next paragraph:
I asked around and learned that he wrote a book called "Clean code" and that he likes Ruby, which just makes no sense to me at all - How do you unify a tool as unstable, unpredictable, untamed as Ruby (second only to Perl) with Clean Code?
- fogus 16y agoYour statement is a non-sequitur. The Clojure community on the whole is extremely friendly -- that he takes a stab at Ruby does not invalidate this fact. One person blogging one statement does not a community make.
- ihumanable 16y agoNo but if this author thought this appropriate for the community's consumption, then it would make someone outside the community think that the community may be less than friendly.
- fogus 16y agoOf course you are correct. Unfortunately I imagine that every programming community suffers from this.
- binspace 16y agoUnfortunately, the blog post author is lots of peoples' first exposure to the Clojure community. Not a great first impression.
- shoover 16y agoYou're right. And I've seen several public requests in #clojure for him to stop with the unproductive language wars, but he ignores them.