> He doesn't appear to even consider the possibility that he might be noticing the anti-Scala rants more readily than rants against other programming languages.

> He doesn't appear to even consider the possibility that he might be noticing the anti-Scala rants more readily than rants against other programming languages. Not having considered the possibility of the bias, he has no chance to try and correct for it. The wildly distorted impression he's formed leads him to language bordering on conspiracy theories ("grand coalition of people who want to attack Scala"). What makes matter worse is that he posted his rebuttal on the scala-debate mailing-list which was quick to support his points and reinforce him in his misguided conception that 1) there is a conspiracy against Scala and that 2) the problems brought up by naysayers can be safely ignored. Martin simply can't admit that people criticizing his language might actually have good reasons to do so, instead, he just dismisses them and files them in the category "too lazy to learn" or "threatened by Scala".