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> Well, Twitter is using Scala

Speaking of ranting and Twitter. On a higher level, I think Twitter is helping this negativity crystallize and come through better by the nature of the service. "Express your opinion in short burst of quick messages". It is hard to pass sometimes a more detailed description of what you mean so what comes out is often a mean short response. Usually people don't talk in short messages when they want to express an opinion or tell a story.

There is a whole slew of misunderstandings started on Twitter. Like someone bragged about writing a sorting algorithm. Well it was for learning a language but that didn't fit in the 140 character limit. Then they get attacked for "That is ridiculous this bubble sort it has been around for long" also in 140 charters. It snowballs from there. It is often followed by an apology on some blog somewhere.