Absolutely. I think we in the IT community should really strive to be better at nuance when discussing these things. I mean, as much as I've seen "Haskell suc

Absolutely. I think we in the IT community should really strive to be better at nuance when discussing these things. I mean, as much as I've seen "Haskell sucks" posts, I've also seen quite a lot of "Haskell solves all your problems!" posts. That's not how anything works in the Real World(TM) when solving concrete business problems -- whatever that business domain may be. Rather, it's trade-offs all the way down. It does get tiresome to read these re-hashes of debates which should have been over already. (EDIT: For anyone wondering, the answer is: It depends.) I think the "tribes" blog post mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699983 is very insightful for the meta-level of this discussion. EDIT: Final edit while I can. We see this a lot with "lol PHP" style comments... and all those achieve is a sense of elitism and making people who actually get lots of important work done in PHP feel bad. I don't want that world.