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0 pointslillesvin6y ago0 comments

> [...] its definitely not for everyone hence the preference for sheer barriers to entry

So, keeping in mind that you said you'd had your issues with exiting nano (despite the instructions being on-screen at all times), is CS for you?

Besides, people have other reasons to be messing around with Linux/Unix than studying CS.

I'm sorry, but you're presenting exactly 0 arguments for gatekeeping except gatekeeping itself, and that just seems rather silly to me.

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artsyca6y ago· 2 in thread

I started on an apple][ where anything you typed simply said SYNTAX ERROR and there was no stack overflow

That's cool, but do you have any arguments for gatekeeping except for "for the sake of gatekeeping"?

Yes because it's hard until it isn't whereas the other way around it's a bunch of green neophytes all thumbs

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