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> 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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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".

Yes, I was experimenting with exactly that style of writing, guess it worked ;)

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