It’s pretty ironic that I was referring to me reducing the argument to absurdity and you’re going after me “with all due respect” for my text interpretation skills. You didn’t think it weird I was talking about pointing…
Correct. I reduced the comparison to absurdity and intentionally overlooked several concerns, and pointed that out, to note that binary yes/no is more nuanced here and that the alternative opinion can be built from…
Actually, the person I responded to did dispute exactly that by claiming the limiting effect of language choice is gated by experience. Read what they said again. That’s also reducing the argument to absurdity, which I…
You’d bet wrong. Say I want to add two numbers and ship it to prod. In Python, that’s one line and an scp. In Java, that’s at least three, a compile step, and an scp. By definition I’m more productive in Python due to…
It’s pretty ironic that I was referring to me reducing the argument to absurdity and you’re going after me “with all due respect” for my text interpretation skills. You didn’t think it weird I was talking about pointing…
Correct. I reduced the comparison to absurdity and intentionally overlooked several concerns, and pointed that out, to note that binary yes/no is more nuanced here and that the alternative opinion can be built from…
Actually, the person I responded to did dispute exactly that by claiming the limiting effect of language choice is gated by experience. Read what they said again. That’s also reducing the argument to absurdity, which I…
You’d bet wrong. Say I want to add two numbers and ship it to prod. In Python, that’s one line and an scp. In Java, that’s at least three, a compile step, and an scp. By definition I’m more productive in Python due to…