[strlen]

> The idea that not knowing what you're talking about somehow makes you heroic or more reliable is incorrect

That's a really good definition of anti-intellectualism. It's easy to sneer at academic languages (and easy to hate them, just observe a college frosh/soph struggling through Scheme or Haskell), but things we now take for granted e.g., garbage collection, virtual machines, IDEs, object orientation, templates/generics were all (even recently) considered academic.

[bhiggins]

the only struggle with scheme is with falling asleep