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I have noticed one or two Clojure articles that border on "douchewienery", but only on personal blogs. I haven't noticed any bad behavior on the Clojure group.

That said, I haven't noticed that much negativity in the Ruby community either, aside from on Zed Shaw's blog, so perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong places. (Or the right places, depending on one's point of view.)



"I haven't noticed that much negativity in the Ruby community either"

Well I interpreted "douchewienery" to be more (ignorance + snobbishness) than being harshly negative. Both Ruby and Clojure have plenty of practitioners who have no deep understanding of other languages (or knowledge of programming language theory or language design skills) combined with a certainty that their language is "the one". Witness all the "Ruby is better than Python" rants.

Interestingly, the founders of both languages are the opposite - competent and down to earth. One would think they would be emulated more.


> Interestingly, the founders of both languages are the opposite - competent and down to earth. One would think they would be emulated more.

Indeed. Though I wish Guido would have more love for tail call optimization. (At least he knows how to write a parser. (I am looking at you, PHP.))




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