Prattle of the Pettiest
by Martin on 9/04/2009
Original photo by Flickr user alexerde. Bastardized thoroughly by yours truly.
These two posts by Keith Peters do a marvelous job at summarising an age-old frustration that most ActionScript developers and I’m certain developers in many other languages, have either faced or actively promulgated.
Namely the attitude that while my language is certainly a robust and decent Object-Oriented Programming language, yours is obviously the stuff of programmer playgrounds and can hardly be considered programming at all.
I’ve broadly steered clear of participating in these pissing contests, but I’m sick to death of them and wish the collective programming community would grow the hell up and quit Balkanizing 1 since we all seem to have flourishing and genuinely resourceful communities in each our camps.
The first post.
The second post that explains the first post to the hard of thinking, but is still worth a read to us really smart folks.
- Apologies to Aral Balkan who of course represents anything but what this term has come to mean. ↩
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