What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?
It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.
It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.
To defend their technology/language of choice, who they felt was undeservingly dismissed as obsolete?
>The same point could have been made without the condescension.
I think the "less competition" is a valid point. People that dismiss languages as "old" or not fashionable enough, often miss opportunities in niche areas -- case in point all the COBOL jobs.