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Really? It just sounds condescending and arrogant in a very Anglo-centric way even if I try to read the satire between the lines.

If that was the intention, the author isn't very good at it.



The author is someone who is trying to apply a simple and consistent set of rules to non-perfect systems.

The author of course gets 'angry' with the super-non-perfect systems.

Those languages are very difficult to deal with, and he is expressing his frustration. That doesn't mean he's being condescending nor arrogant.


You should replace "non-perfect" with "non-English" in your comment. That would fit just as well.


I disagree.

It seems to me like english is "more perfect" if you are trying to build a straightforward model of a language like a software developer might.

The article suggests that there are some convoluted rules in other languages which make it much more difficult to model the language.




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