A stack proponent has advised me, "to maybe not be so confrontational with saying stack does not work." I love this juicy world, and all the comedy enveloped within it.
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1) ridiculing a thing as an strategy for improving that thing is a strategy, I wouldn't say it's "critical" to that thing getting better... But it is a valid strategy I'll give you that
Yes it is critical. Do you remember when Brisbane was writing shitty Java and Ruby, and I had to listen to the cries of the "social injustice" of pointing to how terrible it is? If it were not critical, you'd point to an alternative.