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It wasn't even that pointed. I don't remember the exact wording but the comment was basically someone telling me I had no right to criticize a language's choice
by donatj 4y ago
It wasn't even that pointed. I don't remember the exact wording but the comment was basically someone telling me I had no right to criticize a language's choices until I'd written a compiler myself.
It's is clearly nonsense, the same kind of logic as people who hate movie critics, but it's gotten a rent-free place in my head for years now.
Something just about the tone of the comment made it stick in my brain.
- nottrobin 4y agoWell in case it helps, yes that's complete nonsense. Of course languages can be criticised, by anyone, just like everything else. That's how they improve. I guess by that logic the person shouldn't be criticising your criticism of the language until they've tried criticising the language themselves .
- MrVandemar 4y agoMakes me wonder if the person who made the comment had themselves written a compiler, or, as I suspect, not.