On: Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers

[berntb]

That language war comment (w/out a reference) was voted to 8 in fifteen minutes... :-)

Edit: 17 after an hour. Try writing a language flame without references to studies or anything about e.g. Python in a Python discussion -- and see how the votes go...

[singular → berntb]

Because programming is such a study-able thing... except it isn't. Too many factors to take into account, not least individual developer ability/experience/etc.

[efsavage → berntb]

It's called an opinion. Apologies for the lack of footnotes*

  *Not really**

  **This is called sarcasm.[1]

  [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

[berntb → efsavage]

OK, after a couple of beers on the way home...

I'm not shocked that you like to troll language wars, I've been a kid myself. (And if you do this after 30, please don't tell me -- I'd like to keep some illusions about humanity.)

What do shock me is that this kind of sh-t gets upvoted by so many on HN. I have lost a lot of respect for a couple of open source language cultures, the last year or two. Which is damn sad.

[berntb → efsavage]

So troll any other language discussion then, without any support? :-)