Two weeks ago Aurynn Shaw wrote a piece called “Contempt Culture”:

OKAY finally got it together. My post on why you need to shut up on bashing languages http://blog.aurynn.com/86/contempt-culture

— cute af (@aurynn) December 16, 2015

And even before I finished reading it I had a thought:

Oh, this is not the article I expected to be reading.

So here’s the article I thought I was going to read, based on the tweet. A short version, anyway.

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