To us, here and now, it appears thus » CAIR Story 1. Honey, I lost my zeal!:
See a pattern? Yes, I’ve been attached to each and every programming language I’ve ever learnt, thinking I could conquer the world with my new knowledge. How so naive of me. If you are under the same illusions that I was suffering from, I suggest go and write “production” code. Why? because production code is a wholly different deal from your hobby programming. if you are programming because there are no more good blogs to read, then its ok if you don’t put a tricky loop doing network i/o inside a try - catch/except (unwind-protect) kind of construct. But thats a big NO with production code. Thats downright stupid in production code. And you thought your pet language could do anything faster, better and sometimes even in supernatural ways than those of the “other” lesser languages? “Ha Ha Ha”, you self-delusional lemon-eater.
Welcome to the world of the working programmer, unless you're a Java zombie, in which case, welcome to the world. It's downright amusing to see the Campbell-like "Eternal Return" of this loss of innocence meme; what's even more interesting is the need in the geek community (or the remaining part of it for which O'Reilly hasn't barfed up a new "lifestyle" magazine/blog/conference/invitation-only binge weekend) for The One True Whatever. That would be those of you who still think Java works really well for text-processing one-offs. What's scary though, is the millenialist, triumphalist, dare I say fundamentalist, zeal people work up over this sort of thing.
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