Programming language fanboyism

I hate the fact that most programming discussion forums and this whole "blogosphere" thing are clogged with programming language fanboys who:

- Have chosen some pet language (typically something functional and relatively uncommon like Haskell, Erlang, ML or Clean)
- Have never really bothered to really learn the said language (or any other language for that matter) to a level where they could make reasonable statements about its merits
- Have never written any actual useful code in it
- Demonstrate the greatness of their language by writing yet another fucking factorial function or a Fibonacci sequence generator and pointing out how it is clearer or more elegant than its Lisp/Python/C/whatever equivalent
- Make vague claims about how some feature x (which they don't understand and have never used but have read about in Wikipedia) makes their language hugely more productive (yes, the actual word they use) than any other language on the planet

I'm not sure that you can really say this about "most programming discussion forums," as I've never seen an experience with things like Haskell, Erlang, ML or Clean.

C, C++, Java, and especially perl vs Python vs PHP? Yeah, for sure. But usually those are specific to certain uses, and it's a lot easier to understand *why* the board is "fanboy'd" as such.

>>1
Too bad Ruby on Rails is slow as fuck.

>>1
Sir, I believe you have been trolled with my "procedural languages considered harmful" troll thread.

i don't think the board is filled with fanboys.
most people don't even believe the shit they post.
I believe there are many experienced programmers here, and tired of what they where coding so they come here to talk about haskell and the one word of forced indentation of code and how they tell the compiler what is going on.

>>5
one word the forced indentation of the code

>>6
I AM AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER I TELL THE CODE TO INDENT.

>>6
>>7

LOL SAME PERSON. You stupid faggot. Go fuck a nigger.

>>8
oh no shit holmes!
i could just sage it and hide the id, but it was on purpose.
idiot.

tenn

>>5
No one was talking about this board.

>>7
In Mother Lisp, code writes you

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