>> When I say "I like Perl", I am told that I am "the dumbest person alive" Not the dumbest person alive, that would be a Perl maintainer, more like the second

>> When I say "I like Perl", I am told that I am "the dumbest person alive" Not the dumbest person alive, that would be a Perl maintainer, more like the second dumbest person alive. Joking. I think it is probably related to the whole bicycle shed issue it is easy to rag on and have an opinion on "hate' and "like" because they themselves are opinion statements. Factual stuff like the above is infinitely more interesting than "I like beans" but it also provides less emotional reaction rating, commenting, etc.