Good to see some effort put into making a case in the debate (for either side). I drank the Haskell koolaid pretty hard a few years back, and I wanted to believ

Good to see some effort put into making a case in the debate (for either side). I drank the Haskell koolaid pretty hard a few years back, and I wanted to believe that all the anecdotes people used to support the language had to be true. You're more productive because of all the compiler can do for you, you're safer, you're more correct, etc... My experience after some time was that significant effort was spent with me serving the type system, rather than it serving me. The article's statements are in line with the lessons I've learned, and I'm not going to feel bad about throwing about such an anecdote around on a message board...but more to the point, I feel GOOd that some people are taking strides to make this conversation less anecdotal.