[andrewcooke]

This could be caused by any of these widely known cognitive biases:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_bias

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behavior

[edit: also, you're inferring the experience of people from the complaints that they make. that means that you are automatically dismissing anyone who makes certain kinds of complaints simply because you know that some people who make those complaints have little experience of scala. so, for a very simple example, you might find that only people with a very high tolerance for type system induced pain can tolerate scala - then you would be dismissing the majority of people, presumably with valid criticisms of scala, just because they are not part of your (self-selected, exceptional - and not necessarily in a good way) clique.]

[soc88]

I think the case is not that people knowing Scala are unable to see the problems of the language (e. g. scala.Enumeration).

The thing is that people knowing the language can easily tell apart people who never seriously tried using the language from those who did, because the complains of the first group are so much different from the other group.

[psuedoscience]

> .... widely known ..

Yeah right.

Might I suggest you read more about

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

Rather pointing out that humanity is flawed. Why don't you try to practice living by virtue and show others the right way ?

It's more honorable than finger pointing from a high horse.

[andrewcooke]

what do you want me to do? i was less aggressive than you are. i gave links to references. i posted from my own account rather than hiding behind a new one. herd behaviour and sunk costs are good explanations for the kind of response i was replying to - everyone knows that technology creates "fan boys". so what, exactly, are you criticising in what i said?

i don't understand your anger, apart from the fact that you don't like to be wrong.