Hatred and contempt

A sane and intelligent human being is more often than not capable of detecting hatred and contempt towards self, when dealing with others by way of verbal or written communication. This includes myself. When I see the obsession of Microsoft and many in the IT world with immutable objects and collections, I realize that they hate, despise, and distrust me.

What purpose do immutable objects and collections serve other than to tell the consumer of them, a developer in our case, that he/she is not to be trusted? None.

Allow me to break it to you, enlightened ivory tower dwellers: I have no intent of altering your objects or collections when I consume them to extract data for my functions or algorithms from them. You do not have to fear me misusing your precious objects. I possess enough intelligence to take 1-2 fields from them, to iterate them, and to forget about them because I am done. But you go out of your way to jump through hoops in order to make them immutable, read-only, or whatnot.

Well, I do not really care. They are your objects or collections, so you do with them however you see fit. You already have read-only collections that do not implement Add() or Remove(), but it is not good enough for you. Being a compassionate human being, I still pity you for having to spend so much unnecessary efforts in vain, and I also realize that you hate and distrust me. Get a life!

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