[davidism]

> People walk away from a game of Cards Against Humanity thinking that they’re hilarious.

Which people? My friends and I walk away from a game of Cards Against Humanity thinking we had a fun time coming up with stupid combinations for an hour. I can also turn the author's previous sentence around and state that there are probably many people that get too invested in elves and orcs as well.

> ... this passes once you’re more familiar with the language and are using it for real things

> ... a large enough subset of the community never reaches that stage

This is true about pretty much every programming language (and probably generalizable to most non-programming things too). The author just happened to apply it to Ruby and Haskell for some reason.

If there's a message such as "programmers should be more aware of the language's strengths and weaknesses and shouldn't feel overconfident", it's lost in the paragraphs of vague complaints.

[aantix]

His CAH argument was weak at best. Does he hate iMovie too because the videos produced inflate the perception of his video editing abilities?

After playing a game of CAH, I don't think any of my friends have any delusions about doing standup or writing a comedic op-ed piece for the NY Times.

[thoughtpalette]

Yea, I get his arguments about API design, but the CAH stuff was somewhat unwarranted and an overgeneralization.