> seem to have a higher proportion of smug self-congratulatory explanations-that-don't-really-explains-but-let-the-explainer-bask-in-his-or-her-sense-of-superio

> seem to have a higher proportion of smug self-congratulatory explanations-that-don't-really-explains-but-let-the-explainer-bask-in-his-or-her-sense-of-superiority posts than other languages do That's my point. It absolutely doesn't seem that way to me, because I know Haskell and Lisp. I'm also personal friends with PHP developers who I used to work with and they have exactly the same attitude towards anyone talking about Ruby or Python or literally anything else. They are angry at the bullshit that these smug language jerks keep throwing their way about how "bad" their perfectly good language is.