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by thanatropism 2328 days ago
It's all about tone.

Everyone remembers being a brash know-nothing teenager, so just by the headline "DESTROYING C" you get that vibe.

I remember having a blog about Haskell circa 2002 where I would smugly enumerate the ways in which Guido van Rossum was wrong. "GUIDO IS WRONG! PART 4" my post titles would say.