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by theGimp 3247 days ago
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.
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rodgerd 3247 days ago
Yet you didn't feel the need to lecture the parent comment for s snide dismissal of a programming language and everyone who uses it.
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coldtea 3247 days ago
>What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

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.

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