> That's just, wrong on so many levels. Anyway, I'm just happy they didn't say anything like "people who screw up colons shouldn't be coding" A lot of those ar

> That's just, wrong on so many levels. Anyway, I'm just happy they didn't say anything like "people who screw up colons shouldn't be coding" A lot of those arguments read like they have a lack of empathy and desire to make things easier for new programmers who want to learn or use the language. To me, it comes across as if coming from a position of arrogance, especially the latter claim - a perspective that I've sadly have encountered often, with many people unapologetically being happy about their solutions or the status quo being being unapproachable or needlessly complex - be in regards to system design, code structure, or even how entire libraries (or languages) work. Then again, even people like Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds have been known to be difficult in certain regards. I'm not sure whether our industry seems to attract people who have strong feelings about certain things, or whether those beliefs are simply more apparent. Either way, you'll have to deal with that, either because of technologies that you need to use and don't have control over, or because of having to work on certain projects together with developers like that. Best you can do is probably be as nice as you can towards others yourself. Also, web archive link, in case the site is down (rate limited) for anyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20221204044109/https://phil.tech/2013/wtf-is-t-paamayim-nekudotayim/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221204044109/https://phil.tech...