"What I usually hear from language designers is a laundry list of minuscule little features which are not really any better than any other language, and are usually just style differences. "
Any examples? Matz? Guido? Alan Kay? Who actually says this?
The article condemns those who make assertions without proof, then does that very thing. A number of times,
Basically, every tool or language has some number of annoying hypesters. (Like, um, Rails, for example.) But treating them as legitimate sources of authority on that tool or language is usually just goofy.
As you can see I'm a big fan of Zed Shaw and of his eccentricities. If there was one person I would love to work on a open source project with. It would be him.
Any examples? Matz? Guido? Alan Kay? Who actually says this?
The article condemns those who make assertions without proof, then does that very thing. A number of times,
Basically, every tool or language has some number of annoying hypesters. (Like, um, Rails, for example.) But treating them as legitimate sources of authority on that tool or language is usually just goofy.