That's true. But once Bob Martin posits that "Clojure could be the last programming language," he's crossing pretty much all programming domains. The original post is right in taking him to task for that statement.
I don't agree. The post comes across as insanely angry. You listened to a podcast and are reduced to ranting? Bad sign... might be time to go play with the dog or something.
The weird thing about this is that it probably wouldn't happen if he were listening to Uncle Bob (or whomever) in person. He'd raise a point, and probably get some reasonable qualification, and move on. But when the talk has already happened, and all you can do is read/listen and stew, people have an amazing ability to parse and reparse the phrasing, treating it like someone's last word and final position forever.
Maybe that makes sense for PG's essays; he seems pretty careful with words. But I don't think most people are that careful.
