[abraininavat]

Blah blah blah. Knowing about logical fallacies can be instructive for the skeptical among us, but often bringing them in every-day discussions is pedantic.

Regardless of whether the statement was an appeal to authority, regardless of whether Joe Armstrong or arianvanp are "true authorities" or if that's even objectively determinable, regardless of whether we consider inductive arguments as persuasive... regardless of all that.. we have brains. You can see what Joe Armstrong wrote. You can pick up Erlang and Elixir and use them yourself. You can see what arianvanp wrote. Some of us (excepting jacquesm, of course) have the capacity to use our own brains to consider the validity of the arguments at hand without having to resort to the lazy inductive argument that Joe Armstrong is smart about Erlang and therefore is probably right.

If you have a brain, use it instead of checking it in at the door.

[saraid216]

> Knowing about logical fallacies can be instructive for the skeptical among us, but often bringing them in every-day discussions is pedantic.

That's why I wrote the comment. arianvanp brought them up, was pedantic, and also wrong about their usage.