Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking

[Walter Bright]

On 7/26/2013 7:20 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> This discussion brought to my mind the quote (don't know who said
> it):
>
> “Obscenity is the sign of a weak mind trying to express itself
> forcibly.”

It reminds me of something my lawyer told me:

1. If the law is on your side, argue the law.
2. If justice is on your side, argue justice.
3. If neither is on your side, use ad homenims.

(I inferred from this that you can tell how good the other guy's case is by how 
he argues it!)

> However, I must admit I've known many people who have brilliant
> minds that tend to enjoy using obscenity, so this cannot be
> entirely true.  However, I do think the quote has some truth to
> it as sometimes obscenity is used to add force to an argument,
> when perhaps a little more thought would have simply produced a
> better argument.

Jobs and Torvalds famously use(d) obscenity, and in fact being cussed out by 
either of those can be a perverse badge of honor.

But I think those are exceptions, and their methods are not general license for 
others to use the same techniques.