How to troll programmers

theory vs pragmatism
vi vs emacs
x language vs y language
-works well with these (x,y) pairs
(java, c++) (lisp dialect, c++/java) (c, c++) (python, java) (perl, c/++) (perl,php)
CLI vs IDE
nix vs windows
microsoft vs linux
garbage collection vs managed memory

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Obviously, we don't want our tools—including our programming languages—to be more complex than necessary. But one aim should be to make tools that will serve skilled professionals—not to lower the level of expressiveness to serve people who can hardly understand the problems, let alone express solutions.
And then he made Sepples. Practice what you preach, Bjarne!