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Very good points, but the article a little bit and the comments here in particular remind me of one of my favorite tweets: > Let's argue about whether Haskell

by skore 13y ago

Very good points, but the article a little bit and the comments here in particular remind me of one of my favorite tweets: > Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape. https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352 https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352

tikhonj 13y ago
That's a blatantly false dichotomy. Often the people doing the arguing are also the most productive: witness Don Stewart. Quantitative finance is more demanding than some PHP-laden startup, and yet he still manages to write a bunch of libraries and surprisingly performant code.
- skore 13y ago
  > That's a blatantly false dichotomy. Hint: A lot of jokes are based on one.
  - tikhonj 13y ago
    That tweet doesn't really come off as much of a joke. More like very thinly veiled criticism.
    - skore 13y ago
      Criticism of what?