I wonder if Stephen Colebourne or Alex Blewitt will write a news story or blog post about this response. They've certainly not hesitated to spew out the following garbage, all in the past week:
In his first article, Alex even had the gall to reference himself twice without mentioning the fact, all while still writing in a voice that pretended to unbiased reporting. That seems very unprofessional to me!
No, actually, I don't wonder at all. When I read the Harry Potter series, its portrayal of media as corrupt and sensationalist irked me as unrealistic hyperbole. No one could be that biased in their reporting, could they? Yet the conduct of these two lately conjures up in my head an image of Rita Skeeter sneaking about, spreading rumors and twisting truths into half-lies. At least they've made their irrational anti-Scala bias clearly manifest, so the rest of us can ignore them now.
If you've been paying attention, I addressed most of Stephen's points in the comments sections of his first two blog posts, and Alex's "news stories" are just a rehash of those posts. I've also made comments in one of the other Hacker news threads about the Yammer email. Finally, I know Scala has flaws and admitted to them in other places. I may be a fanboy, but I consider myself one that listens to reason, at least.
My last comment, however, has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the human side of things. Stephen and Alex are playing dirty, and I'm calling them out for it.
I don't blog actively right now, although I'm tempted to start after all this. All my input can be found in the comments sections of Stephen's two EJB2 posts and in other hacker news threads.
When a "journalist" says "there is a rumor that X", is it even false? After all, once a journalist said it, the rumor exists. Bad PR is easy to generate and if media consumers are stupid and lazy enough, they'll buy it.
The Potterverse is a tale of what happens when there are no adults in the world at all - when all people behave like twelve year olds all the time. Annihilation of all life on Earth is prevented by authorial fiat.
http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/scala-feels-like-ejb-2-and-othe...
http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/scala-ejb-2-feedback.html
http://blog.joda.org/search/label/scala
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/scala-ejb2
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/yammer-scala
In his first article, Alex even had the gall to reference himself twice without mentioning the fact, all while still writing in a voice that pretended to unbiased reporting. That seems very unprofessional to me!
http://alblue.bandlem.com/2009/08/modularity-for-scala.html
http://alblue.bandlem.com/2009/10/scala-is-still-not-enterpr...
No, actually, I don't wonder at all. When I read the Harry Potter series, its portrayal of media as corrupt and sensationalist irked me as unrealistic hyperbole. No one could be that biased in their reporting, could they? Yet the conduct of these two lately conjures up in my head an image of Rita Skeeter sneaking about, spreading rumors and twisting truths into half-lies. At least they've made their irrational anti-Scala bias clearly manifest, so the rest of us can ignore them now.