I look forward to the day when Hacker News moves beyond these "my language is better than yours" articles written by third rate programmers. In his first parag

I look forward to the day when Hacker News moves beyond these "my language is better than yours" articles written by third rate programmers. In his first paragraph it makes it clear to me that he didn't understand the nature of any of the languages he originally discarded, and he discarded them because he didn't understand them in sort of a "its too hard or my brain, therefore they suck!" Which sets a really poor stage to then hear that Clojure is the second coming. I'm neutral on clojure- but in my experience, every time I learn a new language, for awhile it feels like the second coming, because if its a good language it has a reason for being, and in the scope of that reason for being, it really is the second coming. The problem-- and what makes this guy a third rate programer-- is the latching onto that language and it becoming your blub language. He decries FP as a fad and offers instead, a language specific fad. Seriously, dude? When you step up to the level where language is less important, and it constrains your thinking less, then you'll step up to the next level of programming ability.