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The fact that he leads with "language X sucks because it attracts type Y programmers" is quite possibly the worst, cheapest, and lowest attack I've ever seen in technology.

We see a similar point being made against Rubyists and Rails developers on HN quite often, alas. And, worse, in the "I'd learn Ruby but it seemed like there was too much drama" crowd.



Ruby and Python both benefited enormously in their constant ragging on Perl.

I can't even count the number of times I've heard the "Perl sucks!" mantra (often from people who have little if any experience with the language).

That sort of attitude reminds me of this diagram:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9872/programmerheirarachy...




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