Thanks for explaining: your ridicule of newcomers was parody; not your opinion.
I disagree with you about the article - I think comparisons and metaphors can shed light and reveal common principles of tools/tasks (without defining them). I thought your comparison of sh vs. lisp was insightful.
I take back what I implied about some lisp-users. It's just that I wish it were easier for me to learn about lisp (which I wish about many things).
I think comparisons and metaphors can shed light and reveal common principles of tools/tasks (without defining them)
Oh absolutely. We are pattern-matching machines. If we had to reason about every new thing from first principles because of the exceptions and corner cases that mean no two things are exactly alike...
Well let's just say we would need a whole brain architecture. The one we have--highly parallel with relatively slow procesors and six layers of neocortex--wouldn't cut it.
I disagree with you about the article - I think comparisons and metaphors can shed light and reveal common principles of tools/tasks (without defining them). I thought your comparison of sh vs. lisp was insightful.
I take back what I implied about some lisp-users. It's just that I wish it were easier for me to learn about lisp (which I wish about many things).