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> Oh man. I don't know what to say. In the process of trying to bust myths, this confirmed every practical concern that the "myths" actually express. I think t
by wolfgke 7y ago
> Oh man. I don't know what to say. In the process of trying to bust myths, this confirmed every practical concern that the "myths" actually express.
I think this is part of the joke.
- moomin 7y agoMy favourite was “Myth: Perl6 is slow” “Reality: Look at all these open performance tickets!”
- b2gills 7y agoMany of those are because one way to write the code is slower than another way to write it. So it is more about the speed not being evenly distributed.
- Daemon404 7y agoBased on the rest of the blog, I can't actually tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or not...
- geofft 7y agoIt's very poorly written satire if so. You can't point out the absurdity of something by repeatedly arguing that it's not absurd. The point about Chinese characters being unfamiliar to readers of Latin alphabets is a good one, for instance. It would be like Dilbert having a week where the pointy-haired boss's apparent nonsense is actually good management practice that Dilbert has been misunderstanding: it would neither be funny nor effectively educational.
- runn1ng 7y agoHe replied to me on twitter, it’s not supposed to be a satire https://twitter.com/aearnus/status/1147960078680485889?s=21 https://twitter.com/aearnus/status/1147960078680485889?s=21
- wolfgke 7y agoThanks for the clarification. This all reminds me of Poe's law > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poe%27s_law&oldid=905113307 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poe%27s_law&oldid... "[W]ithout a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views."