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sir karl popper is known to have said that criticism is a sign of
appreciation, even though he could not stand it himself. there has always
been plenty of criticism on usenet; rarely in depth, and rarely in its
proper level as art. all the popular things make easier targets; we all
know what we like and is popular is not the same as what those other
losers like and is popular. we feel we are closer to Truth somehow, just
as we felt at age ten. this brings us to java, perl, python, tcl, scheme,
c++ and any other new language which captured the hearts and minds of
computing professionals, ten years old and up. in the last several yearrs,
each one of these languages have received some of the most vituperative
and most vacuous criticism ever showeled on the net. they have been the
great mistakes, the end of civilized computing as we know it. it is not
good enough that we spit on them in every opportunity, but we imply that
each one was designed by someone half illiterate, half mad. mr hyde in there
somewhere, and mr magoo as his assistant, surely. lately, we all learned
that java is the biggest pile of [fill in the blanks] ever to hit the
wide world of web...

enough. time to grow up.

criticism is a vicious art; it is hard to take, and it is harder to
give. is meant to enlighten us, further our thinking and help us do better.
when it is used for no other reason than its target's popularity, or for our
own gain, it loses its value and diminishes its would-be practicioners. we can
choose to deliver well-thought-out criticism to worthy targets, and expect
to receive in kind, or we can poison the net with hysterical, worthless
opinion pieces. which one do we deserve?

even a ten year old knows the answer.

oz