[dscrd]

Oh look, they're basically dissing this community to hell in the irc logs. For instance,

"10:10:24 <RodgerTheGreat> another HN gem: "I must say, that the syntax and semantics are not intuitive at all. I've spent half an hour trying to learn how does this thing work, and have not been able to.""

It's horrible to watch when a language community has this sort of a elitistic attitude, especially when it's doubtful that the language has any future.

Source: http://bespin.org/~nef/logs/concatenative/13.04.21

[jabbernotty]

If a person says that something is a gem, they can be sincerely saying that they think it has positive value. Your interpretation was that the phrase was being used in a sarcastic manner. That may well have been the case here, but it doesn't have to be so.

[jufo]

I think the "half an hour" bit is significant. If someone complained that they tried to learn Prolog and gave up after half an hour they wouldn't get much sympathy from me.

[gre]

That's not the case at all. We are anything but elitist...