> "There's trade offs, multitudes, in choosing paradigm / language. It's never so black and white"
Sometimes, it is. Most people don't use COBOL anymore, with reason; better languages came along. Programming is still a new field in the scheme of things. It would be strange if our languages were perfectly optimized, with no room for improvement without offsetting costs.
> "twits who like to argue more than code"
Some of us like to do both :) But go program; we won't stop you...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4137283 comes pretty close to making that claim, and that's just on this page.
> "There's trade offs, multitudes, in choosing paradigm / language. It's never so black and white"
Sometimes, it is. Most people don't use COBOL anymore, with reason; better languages came along. Programming is still a new field in the scheme of things. It would be strange if our languages were perfectly optimized, with no room for improvement without offsetting costs.
> "twits who like to argue more than code"
Some of us like to do both :) But go program; we won't stop you...