i read it as making fun of knee jerk anti-new-language types, as in, all their arguments are pat and repetitive. maybe that's just my perceptual bias, but perh

i read it as making fun of knee jerk anti-new-language types, as in, all their arguments are pat and repetitive. maybe that's just my perceptual bias, but perhaps also the greater context of hacker news that you point to in your comment. i tend to believe that things are posted here in support of experimentation.