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Not really true. Almost no one hates those three topics because in order to hate something you need to know it, and most people don't know those as they are imp
by cladopa 2y ago
Not really true. Almost no one hates those three topics because in order to hate something you need to know it, and most people don't know those as they are impopular.
Popular music with 4 cords progressions, languages like python that people need or basic math are popular. People can hate python, or basic math or reggaeton because they are everywhere.
I am a Lisper and Haskell programmer myself(along other languages) and I can tell you the proportion of people that I know that know what Lisp is is a minority, like 1% of the general population. I would say 10-20% of the population knows what Fortran or C is.
"Their practicioners seem to be divorced from the real world. They don’t actually produce anything useful. Rather than working on practical things that everyone can enjoy, they seem to be caught up in silly exercises just to show off to other nerds."
That is right. Most people in the Haskell community are totally divorced from reality. I would say more, they are not interested in reality at all. Do not tell them about engines or User Interfaces or databases. Not interested at all. They also love Pure Math problems.
I don't see the problem with that. I see the problem when people that are not interested in reality want to rule reality like millionaire children's intellectuals(Engels and Marx, Trotsky, Lenin...) wanted to rule work without having worked in their entire lives.
I see a problem if someone that told me he is not interested in how the User Interface of my app(or any user interface btw) works is telling me that I have to rewrite it in Haskell because it is perfect in his mind.
I find Haskell ideas useful up to a level, but not further than that. While science comes from philosophy and philosophy comes from love to knowledge by itself, most people doing philosophy in the past was wealthy people whose wealth came from somewhere else, like commerce having a fertile land.