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Re:A farewell note to a programming language by nickik on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:31PM (#8700396)
> No offense to the author, but this reads like a 16 old claiming he finally find the girl who is 'the one' for his whole life.

I think thats what he was going for.

> There are far more important things for good software.

Everybody knows this, but people still like to talk about programming languages.

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Re:A farewell note to a programming language by thekingofspain on Thursday December 04, 2014 @03:32PM (#8701455)
Additionally, I think what's key is to note that he wasn't pumping Clojure too hard in the post. It was more a post about why he's leaving Scala. And in that analogy, you can be pretty certain that the girl you're leaving is definitely not "the one".
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Re:A farewell note to a programming language by matthiasn on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:02PM (#8700602)
Yes, I was experimenting with exactly that style of writing, guess it worked ;)
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