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Re: Contempt culture

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On 6/15/2019 2:41 AM, Nadegda wrote:
N> Thought this might be interesting to certain people in certain technical
N> newsgroups that have a lot of acrimony spilling out of them and into 
other
N> froups where it's harshing my mellow:
N>
N> https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
N>
N> ----------
N> So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the 
communities I
N> participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages
N> sucked, the people using them were losers or stupid, if they would just
N> use a real language, such as the one we used, everything would just be
N> better.
N>
N> Right?
N>
N> This sort of culturally-encoded language was really prevalent around
N> condemning PHP and Java. Developers in these languages were actively
N> referred to as less competent than developers in the other, more blessed
N> languages.
N>
N> And at the time, as a new developer, I internalised this pretty heavily.
N> The language I was in was blessed, obviously, not because I was using it
N> but because it was better designed than a language like PHP, less wordy
N> and annoying than Java, more flexible than many other options.
N>
N> It didn’t matter that it was (and remains) difficult to read, it was that
N> we were better for using it.
N>
N> I repeated this pattern for a really long time, and as I learned new
N> languages and patterns I’d repeat the same behaviour in those new
N> environments. I was almost certainly not that fun to be around, a
N> microcosm of the broader unpleasantness in tech.
N>
N> At least, until I got called on it.
N> ----------

Pursuant to a discussion that arose a few days ago, I immediately 
thought of another newsgroup whose denizens desperately need to read that.

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