>Haskell and Lisp developers have more in common with each other than with "best practices" Java developers. Like in actual politics the emotion and the respon

>Haskell and Lisp developers have more in common with each other than with "best practices" Java developers. Like in actual politics the emotion and the response, do not always match up rationally. That's why its called an emotion. For example, preventive wars do not make one safer. But they sure make you feel like you are safer. Going out there, dealing with potential threats. Likewise, Java can be very dynamically typed (depending on your perspective), yet feel 'conservative' (stick with what we know). Haskell is very statically typed, yet feel 'progressive' (explore new grounds). Emotion is not an intentional thing, therefor its application is never rational. To get back to real politics. If a person is both sane, yet fearfull of his or her security, they would not want a bigger military machiene, they would want a bigger worldwide PR machiene. I tend to put the two extremes differently though: a liberal fears being wrong, a conservative fears being right. Which is why progressives go out of their way to be right, and conservatives go out of their way to be wrong. (jk)