Sane language advocacy (was Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope)

[schwern]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:50:36AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > That doesn't mean that davocates for either side don't have anything
> > interesting to say.
> 
> Sure.  However, when it's being presented in the fashion that it's being
> presented in this thread, it hits my mental filters and is completely
> worthless to me.

Its too bad NY.pm doesn't have mailing list archives.  We recently had
a relatively sane and focused discussion on the shortcomings of Java vs
Perl (that's when JWZ's article was pointed out) and managed to keep
the rhetoric to a minimum, mostly by deliberately focusing on hard
features rather than "my language uses less funny characters than
yours" kind of arguments.

If anyone's interested, I'll post up the original article which kicked
off the conversation, but I'll post it SOMEWHERE ELSE.