| > Do I need to make it painfully clear that it's my subjective opinion? Yes. Because a sentence written in the Arial font, as much as I might find that font distasteful, is more readable than the same sentence written by a Captcha-generator. A bubble-sort written in Golang is easier to read than the same bubble-sort written in Brainfuck. Yes, there are exceptions to the rule (I imagine someone who knows Brainfuck, but doesn't know Golang for example), but the rule is very clear in both cases. The clickbait flamewar-inducing headline is saying, essentially, Ruby is the former in the examples I gave, and Python the latter. We're not junior-high students trying to one-up one-another with cute gotchas. We're technical professionals. We should expect higher standards of communication skills from other technical professionals. If you mean "I have a useless opinion that no-one should care about," then state it. If you mean "I have statistical evidence that most technical professionals will be able to comprehend programs written in Ruby better than the same programs written in Python," then state it. But don't expect a good reaction when you say the former, while tricking us into thinking you were saying the latter. |
I don't. People will care about. Not everybody but some will, and that's fine.
> We should expect higher standards of communication skills from other technical professionals.
Reading comprehension is just as important as writing. I expect my peers to know that an opinion is subjective without me needing to say so.
For instance, I would have expected you to not gloss over my last paragraph on the previous post, just as much as I would have expected you to understand, by reading the article, that everything written there is the author's opinion but I guess that wouldn't have been such a good straw man.