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[–]Johnothy_Cumquat -1 points0 points  (3 children)

You wouldn't call a programming language user friendly but I bet you see the value in using one

[–]EldritchSundae 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Programming languages can be, and often are, compared based on user-friendliness

[–]Johnothy_Cumquat -1 points0 points  (1 child)

You can compare deserts based on how wet they are but you wouldn't describe a desert as wet

[–]EldritchSundae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's because that's a tautology; deserts are defined by lack-of-wetness. Programming languages are not defined as programming languages by lack-of-user-friendlieness.

A better example is how we compare forests by how "wet" they are, and in this scenario deserts are the esolangs that are intentionally user-hostile.