On 3/12/10 1:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
We certainly could learn from it:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html
Andrei
Seems to have touched a nerve with Bartosz!
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Bartosz Milewski said...
Whatever bit you, Stevey? Why rant against Haskell? Have you been
recently bullied by Haskellites? I thought they were pretty harmless.
BTW, since when are you running on a populist platform? I mean, you'll
get a lot of votes from yahoos who don't give a shit about anything that
happens outside of their villages. You're giving them an excuse to
dismiss and ridicule anything they don't understand, not only monads or
category theory. I can see them marching behind you with pitchforks and
torches ready to ban exceptions, templates, STL, and all this highbrow
stuff. It would be funny if it weren't already happening even at the top
software companies (how modern are the Google coding standards?).
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I think Bartosz makes a good point about Steve's post giving people a
reason to dismiss things they don't understand. On the other hand, Steve
does highlight the fact that those ultra-abstract features are just
meaningless to the vast majority of programmers.
