What'll it be?asks the bartender.
Replies the man,
Tell me, where could I find a non-alcoholic drink which will get me just as inebriated as that fine scotch just behind you?
Ahh, I don't know, but perhaps you'd like some of that scotch?
No, I don't drink alcohol. Goodbye.
If something about this conversation strikes you as odd, then you are dissimilar to a good number of programmers in at least one way.
Call me slow, but this is about programming language bigotry, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI figured it was static typing v. duck typing.
ReplyDeleteIt's simpler.
ReplyDeleteIt's about people rejecting known solutions and seeking others using few criteria other than the exclusion of a known solution.
Okay, yeah, that's the general idea I got - for some reason I specialized it to choice of programming language.
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