Todd Gillespie <toddg / linux127.ma.utexas.edu> wrote: : In a nutshell, programmers that have not understood a particular facility : in a language are likely to treat it as unimportant, because they know how : to think about programs using the idioms of the languages they already : know, but not in these unfamiliar features. To quote: I'm pretty sure this will be taken as demeaning and pedantic by some readers. Let me just say that we're all guilty of it. Call it Wittgenstein's revenge.