[olefoo]

I downvoted you because that was a trollish comment that added nothing to the discussion and seemed designed to encourage vitriol. The fact is you could substitute pretty much any mainstream language in that statement and it would still be true and still be a troll. People don't want to abandon skills they worked hard to learn just because someone else learned something different. This is true whether that person is a partisan of java, ruby, javascript, python or StandardML.

[mabbo]

What, you think I'm willing to use anything else ever since I read this? http://www.amazon.com/ML-Working-Programmer-Larry-Paulson/dp...

[garthdog]

You sound like a Pet Technologist!

[olefoo]

/me looks at the parts of the cat cam on his workbench, glances at the machine mining dogecoin in the rack next to it .

You may have a point.