🚀 go-pugleaf

Glen C. Perkins (gperkins@netcom.com) wrote:
: [ Arguing the merits of languages ] has a great deal of utility.
: ...
: I *love* to hear (read) two people who really know a lot
: about a language, but have different
: opinions, fight it out.
: Keep up the preaching!

Subsequent comments to this seemed to miss what I think was
the real point, and what I found a lot more interesting than
whether the writer continues to use C. I can only compare
this to an experience I had (unrelated to languages per se).
I had gotten really interested in installing the Linux OS on
my home PC, and I wanted to hear some experienced people
describe what they found fascinating and useful about Linux,
what causes it to inspire such passion. Having that conversation
with the Linux community was like pulling teeth! There are
all these people who find Linux utterly fascinating, but who
were completely unwilling to try to articulate that. Maybe it
was because they smelled a newbie, and thought I didn't deserve
to know why Linux was good, but it's hard to believe they'd
all think that way. It's a curious thing to me that people
should develop such intense passions and then be unwilling to
share their enthusiasm, perhaps only because the listener hasn't
jumped thru the same hoops they did. Just fascinating.