The Semicolon Wars as a software industry and human condition

[Michele Dondi]

On 17 Aug 2006 06:42:55 -0700, "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:

>Of interest:
>
>• The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
[snip]
>• What Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
>http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_to_hate.html

Cool! From the former:

: Today's missionaries take an upbeat approach, spending more time in promoting their own religion and less in dissing the other person's beliefs. The message is no longer "You'll burn in hell if you write C." It's "Look what a paradise Python offers you!" (I think maybe I liked the old sermons better.)


Michele
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