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Re:Why use Clojure? by Sssnake on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:32PM (#6961959)
No, it is a counter point. Demonstrating that all you can glean from someone's personal experience is their personal experience, not some universal truth about the languages.
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Re:Why use Clojure? by Myrmornis on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @11:48PM (#6962215)
That's a bit facile. The evidence for "universal truth" comprises many data points, of which DigitalJack's is one, and yours is one. It's not that the approach is invalid or the anecdote uninteresting, but that these are samples of size one (i.e. anecdotes) and hence insufficient for inference.
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Re:Why use Clojure? by Sssnake on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @11:50PM (#6962219)
Yeah, that's what I was saying. He is taking his personal experience, and generalizing it as if it were a universal truth. That's why I said exactly that.
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