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I never got that impression from that comic. It's not funny because some people are idiots, it's funny because it's revealing a language barrier. The punchline

• epidemian 14y ago
  Agreed. I remember i read that comic a while ago and i didn't get the impression that the author was trying to mock dynamic typing proponents at all. The interpretation i got from the comic was more on the lines of "as most of the people who know about type category prefer static typing, discussions on that subject tend to be very uninteresting". And another possible interpretation is that the comic just expresses the author's preference (pun intended) of type category as a topic of discussion and thus finds the "dynamic vs static language" discussions uninteresting (because, let's face it, they are almost never about type category). My interpretations might be completely biased though, as the first comic from CCC that i read was this one (http://ro-che.info/ccc/18.html http://ro-che.info/ccc/18.html), which could have caused a personal bias because of the good first impression :)
  • smosher 14y ago
    My suspicions only grew when I read the first comment thread on that post. It's a bit disturbing, but the actual slights all seem to be coming from the guy imagining being slighted.