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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by laumars on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @12:19PM (#12211027)
It's possible that's what he meant, but that's not how I understand the term.

Stockholm syndrome refers is a victim forming emotional bonding with his or her captor[1]. Which would mean in instances like this, where the "captor" is a voluntary choice of language, the term is used akin to "masochism" (albeit without the sexual element). In essence, saying "the pleasure from use feature x is derived from the pain of using feature x".

Which is why I commented that "Stockholm syndrome" is a needlessly colourful way if saying "I disagree".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by junke on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @12:26PM (#12211077)
The "masochism" aspect makes Go part of Bondage and Discipline languages:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BondageAndDisciplineLanguage