3 ms·

And the point of this post was... What exactly?

• theaeolist 13y ago
  The point was to highlight, in an amusing fashion (because the specifics were omitted), some of the silly ways in which people compare languages. By being aware of the silly ways in which we can argue about languages we can, hopefully, find some meaningful ways to compare programming languages instead. It was amusing and it was educational.
  • atmosx 13y ago
    Oh, okay then.
• octatone2 13y ago
  Satire on the past few days of HN. Flowing loosely from Math vs. Lisp, Lisp vs. Scala, Clojure vs. Scala ...