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No offense to the author, but this reads like a 16 old claiming he finally find the girl who is 'the one' for life. __only two years later__, that Another girl
by kev6168 12y ago
No offense to the author, but this reads like a 16 old claiming he finally find the girl who is 'the one' for life. __only two years later__, that Another girl shows up and OMG the new chick definitely is the 'true' one.
To put it another way, under extreme circumstances, Mr. Martin Odesky can use even the $&^%$#$ PHP to write safe and efficient airplane flying control software.
The point is the language is hardly matter as much as your kids think. There are far more important things for good software. But language is not only a tool but also a toy and a passion, so I can appreciate the urge to talk about it. :-)
- nickik 12y ago> No offense to the author, but this reads like a 16 old claiming he finally find the girl who is 'the one' for his whole life. I think thats what he was going for. > There are far more important things for good software. Everybody knows this, but people still like to talk about programming languages.
- matthiasn 12y agoYes, I was experimenting with exactly that style of writing, guess it worked ;)
- thekingofspain 12y agoAdditionally, I think what's key is to note that he wasn't pumping Clojure too hard in the post. It was more a post about why he's leaving Scala. And in that analogy, you can be pretty certain that the girl you're leaving is definitely not "the one".