So... Taleb is a like purist programmer (pick your favorite paradigm) and Silver is more like a pragmatist programmer that uses a "hybrid" language model? Ther

So... Taleb is a like purist programmer (pick your favorite paradigm) and Silver is more like a pragmatist programmer that uses a "hybrid" language model? There's values for both types in programmerdom, is there not the same for both in the world of statisticians?