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I don't that the list insinuates that the listed concerns are usually specious.

It seems like an underhanded way to stifle technical debate.

I think the whole thing is tongue in cheek.

You used to program in Pascal, didn't you?

And we're an all-FORTH shop so it'll never scale beyond the undergrad project I got a D in.

The archived page is pulled from http://www.skirsch.com/humor/techarg.htm. There's some merit to some of these, but it's not a serious list.