pg's always had a touch of functional fever. HN used to as well, every 2 or 3 years since it was started you'd have half the comments in a language discussion

pg's always had a touch of functional fever. HN used to as well, every 2 or 3 years since it was started you'd have half the comments in a language discussion swearing blind that everyone was just about to switch to Lisp, then it was Erlang, then Haskell, then Scala.