I don&#x27;t really think this article warrants a serious conversion.<p>He leads with &quot;I’m not endorsing either side&quot;, then proceeds to denumerate every wrong that SO regulars have inflicted on poor, benign newbies, and intersperses it with quotes with hard-working, incipient programmers ( who are, naturally, all from Reddit) who&#x27;ve been abused by oppressed by this ill-tempered cadre of SO devs. Many of them decide to quit the dream they&#x27;re working so hard at because an experienced developer didn&#x27;t debug their while loop.<p>Naturally, he&#x27;s peddling a book that teaches you how to install a text editor and run hello world. The only travesty here is that he&#x27;s getting from free publicity for this troll-bait.