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Actually, the person I responded to did dispute exactly that by claiming the limiting effect of language choice is gated by experience. Read what they said agai

Actually, the person I responded to did dispute exactly that by claiming the limiting effect of language choice is gated by experience. Read what they said again. That’s also reducing the argument to absurdity, which I pointed out, and which apparently did nothing to dissuade you from taking it as my actual position. You’re also explaining a single sector of software usage to me (i.e., the revenue SaaS of the company) as “the real world,” which itself dismisses every other aspect of software development in a shop. Again, including SRE and ops scripts, which are almost always inappropriate in a mainline, industrial, compiled language. Please try to avoid explaining your point with the beginning assertion that those who disagree with you do not live in the real world.

brabel 5y ago
I am OP you're talking about... you misinterpreted my point completely. I was saying that Python and other dynamic languages are not demonstrably more productive for writing general purpose software... as I did not mention scripting at all, I thought it would be obvious that this is what I meant. > Read what they said again. That’s also reducing the argument to absurdity, which I pointed out, and which apparently did nothing to dissuade you from taking it as my actual position. This is absurd. What "they" said was _programmers tend to be most productive in whatever language they know best_. How the hell is this disputing "you can write your 2 line program faster (in Python), no one is disputing that."?? With all the due respect, you need to work on your text interpretation skills. Do you understand that "programmers tend to be more productive" is not the same as "programs are always, without exception, more productive"?
- blooperdoop 5y ago
  It’s pretty ironic that I was referring to me reducing the argument to absurdity and you’re going after me “with all due respect” for my text interpretation skills. You didn’t think it weird I was talking about pointing something out and making an argument in your point, by your interpretation, before you launched off on this crusade to defend your honor? With all due respect, read better and save the lecture.

brabel 5y ago

I am OP you're talking about... you misinterpreted my point completely. I was saying that Python and other dynamic languages are not demonstrably more productive for writing general purpose software... as I did not mention scripting at all, I thought it would be obvious that this is what I meant. > Read what they said again. That’s also reducing the argument to absurdity, which I pointed out, and which apparently did nothing to dissuade you from taking it as my actual position. This is absurd. What "they" said was _programmers tend to be most productive in whatever language they know best_. How the hell is this disputing "you can write your 2 line program faster (in Python), no one is disputing that."?? With all the due respect, you need to work on your text interpretation skills. Do you understand that "programmers tend to be more productive" is not the same as "programs are always, without exception, more productive"?

blooperdoop 5y ago
It’s pretty ironic that I was referring to me reducing the argument to absurdity and you’re going after me “with all due respect” for my text interpretation skills. You didn’t think it weird I was talking about pointing something out and making an argument in your point, by your interpretation, before you launched off on this crusade to defend your honor? With all due respect, read better and save the lecture.