People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.