I like your analogy, Matthew.

My guess about the hostility is that once someone has invested a lot of time
and effort into learning a way to do things, he doesn't want to hear there's
a much better way but it will require him to abandon most of his hard-won
skills.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have found programmers to be extremely hostile to J. I do not know
> where that comes from. It is very strange.
>
> It is like sitting next to a man almost dying of thirst who has only a
> moist sponge to suck on and you offer him a glass of water, but he
> ...
>



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