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"Like most of Harper's articles about Haskell, this is both mostly true and an elaborately constructed troll where it's impossible to tell whether he's getting
by thirsteh 14y ago
"Like most of Harper's articles about Haskell, this is both mostly true and an elaborately constructed troll where it's impossible to tell whether he's getting some lulz or merely piqued that nobody uses ML."
Indeed.
- mahmud 14y agoBob Harper is a pillar of PL research, I think the credentials of his detractor deserve just a tiny bit more scrutiny. It's one thing to refute his assertions, and it's something else entirely to dismiss them as "troll" or "butthurt".
- _delirium 14y agoIt looks like that comment is from the author of a few popular-press PLs books (most recently Real World Haskell), so probably knowledgeable, though not Harper-level accomplished.
- jmillikin 14y agoThat comment was posted by Bryan O'Sullivan; equivalent to Ted T'so getting involved in a discussion on Linux filesystems.
- davidp 14y agoIt looks like most of the folks in the Haskell reddit community are taking it with good humor; I read that comment as a wry tweaking rather than as outright dismissal. Language nerds at play, fun to watch.