"Static typing sucks. It reminds me of the dark ages of programming in the c family of languages. " If working in Haskell reminded him of C (and the post is fu

"Static typing sucks. It reminds me of the dark ages of programming in the c family of languages. " If working in Haskell reminded him of C (and the post is full of rubbish like this [1]), I'd imagine he didn't understand Haskell at all. This is on the order ranting about how lisp is sucky because of "all those parantheses". "And don't even dare to mention Emacs, a lot of people don't like it.It's 2008 and creating a simple Haskell editor is not an rocket science" A supposed "lisper" saying this is hilarious. Many lisps (CLisp, CMUCL, Clojure) reccomend Emacs + slime as "their" editor (and take a lot of heat from uninformed ranters for not having an Eclipse like IDE!) . To top it all he claims Lisp was "divinely inspired" whereas the lowly Haskell is "unblessed". (The basis fr his weird analogy, the linked martial arts "ryu" vs "do" article is an interesting read though) I quote "Haskell is one of those 'unblessed ', modern do languages sharing company with c++, java, c#, OCaml, F# etc" He didn't program anything significant in Haskell, didn't "get" it any way and yet is sure of its inferior nature. This reminds me of an old HN post of a similar rant by a Clojure fanboi titled "Clojure VS Python". He had gems like "A man with a thousand knives...of which none are sharp. It's a chinese proverb ..(which) can also be used to describe Python. ". I wonder if it is the same guy? [EDIT. No it isn't) [EDIT here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881642 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881642]. Contrast with what an ultra competent lisper said about Haskell (Rich Hickey, dismissing another uninformed anti Haskell rant on the Clojure mailing list [ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/32b11b22ec104d4d http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/32b11b22ec104d4d] "Everyone, please refrain from language wars. Haskell is a tremendously ambitious and inspiring language, for which I have the highest respect. There is zero point in bashing it (or its users) in this forum. " The post itself is nothing more than uninformed fanboi ranting, but on HN, even dumb posts result in high quality discussion (as is already happening - silentbicycle's comments on unification for e.g), but it would have been really awesome to get an intelligent and well thought out post on "A (competent) Lisper's reaction to Haskell" [1] another sample: "Case sensitive - why does types has to start with uppercase and functions with lowercase. "