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by andyjohnson0 253 days ago
What are you asking HN? Or is this just a rant?
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> What are you asking HN?

Leave people alone. Don't nag people to use other languages.

Did you tell the guy that annoyed you that? Why tell us?

You'll probably enjoy this ancient one though; it makes good points: https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html/

> I told him to stop, but he couldn't stop mentioning it. I got annoyed and snapped.

So, yes, he did.

I meant the full angry diatribe, not just "stop"

Seems to me the evangelist is just being rude here, there are times and places where evangelism is fine, no?