The guy expressed an opinion... this isn't a Draft Proposal For The Official Unanimous Worldwide Opinion On The Best Programming Language Ever And For All Time.
I can summarize the whole thing as:
"I really like working with arc, and it makes me happy enough to blog about it."
So yeah, while I didn't find it particularly worth upvoting, I'm not sure why you are trying to convince this guy he is somehow _wrong_ about being happy, and telling him he shouldn't dare write about it. You can no more do that than convince someone who claims their favorite color is red that it is in fact blue.
I will be the first to admit that this has been an unnecessary verbal body-slam on my part and I do owe the poster an apology, but:
> The guy expressed an opinion...
In technical circles even opinions have to be defensible. You can't just accept "X sucks and Y rocks" as an opinion and let it pass. The whole place will become abuzz with irrational thought, and overrun with "we are all right" group-think liberal-arts type BS.
> You can't just accept "X sucks and Y rocks" as an opinion and let it pass.
Why not? The only reason that 'the whole place will become abuzz with irrational thought, and overrun with "we are all right" group-think liberal-arts type BS' is because people can't just accept things like this as somebody's opinion... they have to create a language war out of simple blog post about liking something.
(To everyone else, I'll quit now I promise, obviously I'm not helping the matter!)
I can summarize the whole thing as:
"I really like working with arc, and it makes me happy enough to blog about it."
So yeah, while I didn't find it particularly worth upvoting, I'm not sure why you are trying to convince this guy he is somehow _wrong_ about being happy, and telling him he shouldn't dare write about it. You can no more do that than convince someone who claims their favorite color is red that it is in fact blue.