[Semi OT] The programming language wars

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 09:30:38 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 22:55:24 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 07:37:04 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>> Language features should be tested with real users using 
>>> scientific validation processes, instead of being blindly 
>>> added to a language.
>>
>> There is nothing intrinsically more scientific about basing a 
>> decision on a study rather than experience and judgement 
>> (including aesthetic judgement), which is not to say that more 
>> data cannot be useful,
>
>
> Of course there is. Experience and judgement aren't measurable. 
> You don't have science without numbers.
>
> Atila

But then, how can I keep my delusions and pretend they are fact 
because I have experience, judgment and, it goes without saying, 
a great sense of aesthetic  ?