On Jul 2, 10:30 am, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is actually there in his posts in that thread?! blatherings and > generalities about "community" and "attitude" and language "economics" > and "marketing" that any kid high on weed who'd read a post too many > on reddit's /r/programming could've wrote, and what little specific > technical detail shows a clear lack of knowledge about clojure and its > take on functional programming and java interop and unwillingness to > learn. I see I've been gratuitously harsh. I agree with this, having narrowly escaped the evangelists for the Information Technology Indoctrination Library at my former place of employment. Since I've posted some working code, I'm going to indulge in my own journalistic, sociological gloss. I am reminded of the anthropological finding that the human brain decreased in volume by 10% — about the size of a tennis ball — around the dawn of civilization 20,000 years ago. It is believed that the decrease in volume coincided with the emergence of cooperative, prosocial behavior, which enabled the members of reduced-cranium groups to solve some problems that eluded their more amply brained relatives. The larger brains were adapted to more independent modes of survival. But the question for me--speaking of weed-addled advocacy of "community" and "attitude"--is how far are we willing to decrease the volume of our brain cases in the name of cooperation? I have now vastly exceeded my OT limit. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
