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Comment by zwkrt | Hacker News Reader

Programming as a profession is strange because we each do such different things but all tools are available to us all the time. Imagine if this were true in the physical world; you would read arcticles written by accountants like "Dynamite Considered Harmful" with rebuttals titled "Why Dynamite Matters" by construction engineers...

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You see this all the time here on HN. "Interpreted languages are useless" coming from the systems and embedded people. "You can't call yourself a developer if you're not an expert in [FOTM web framework]" from the web devs. "Mutability is evil and reassigning variables is a sign of incompetence" from the functional programming sect.

It's almost as if things aren't really black or white, there's usually plenty of grey in-between. Things like use-cases, scenarios, trade-offs, intricacies. I find it awkward that a security shop would publish an article using that language - I would personally be embarrassed.

> I would personally be embarrassed

The rest of the comment is good, it adds to the argument, and I even agree with it, but there is no reason for this to be here. It doesn't add anything; it's just like calling names. From the HN guidelines:

> Don't be snarky.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

EDIT: To be downvoted like so for reminding people of the guidelines, HN sure is changing. I guess no good thing lasts forever.

this is the most genius thing I've ever read on hacker news.

This is fantastically imaginative. I love it.

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