one-upmanship

IMO this tendency for code golf one-upmanship is a huge detractor for anyone wanting to learn the language.

Many many happy memories of those times [Edit: thinking about it now, the one thing that was missing was one-upmanship.

Probably all it needed to do was make the intention a bit more explicit, so it wouldn't be mistaken for one-upmanship.

The interview process should be about uncovering the talent and potential - not one-upmanship.

Comments that attempt to show up the author of a linked article are a kind of intellectual one-upmanship that is common on Reddit/HN/etc.

I apologize if it came across as a snarky comment or one-upmanship, I merely intended to support your original comment.

This is so much better to hear than Uber's tale of one-upmanship.'?

My gripe is with reflexive and unjustified statistical one-upmanship in HN discussions.

This is so much better to hear than Uber's tale of one-upmanship.

However, we're getting very far away from the original point just for the sake of one-upmanship.

I'm just curious of what your thinking was, not trying to do any one-upmanship.

Without the context of cold war one-upmanship, almost certainly.

It becomes a game of one-upmanship to entertain the watcher and "get famous."

Neither of the Prolog-in-Lisp examples I've seen (in "On Lisp" and "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming", both of which I highly recommend) seem to be much about language one-upmanship.