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I was literally commenting about your point on “maintenance“.

• gambler 7y ago
  Yes, you were. And you effectively had proven the point I made in my root comment. If your notion of large-scale maintenance involves only the problems that can be caught by a typechecker, you don't know what real maintenance looks like. Which means that even your comments about the issues that can be prevented by a type-checker are suspect. Again, the wast majority of claims made about FP on Hacker News right now (even in this thread) were made about Java in early 00s. Almost word-to-word, except some terminology. Unfortunately, back then I didn't have enough experience to spot the issues with those claims and people who did have real experience were mostly silent.
  • bojo 7y ago
    This reads to me as, “You filthy FP advocate, you have no clue what real maintenance is!” I’m not saying the type checker alone is enough to perform large scale maintenance, you and I both know there is more to it than that. At the end of the day, sure, we all have opinions on tools and how they make our lives better. You and I may not agree that FP is the right tool, but I’m not going to make sweeping generalizations that you know nothing about large scale development and and maintenance solely based on your language paradigm choice and a few focused HN comments.