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> If the last sentence read to you like some Haskellish solution to a self-inflicted problem, Language design is a formal discipline. Why the urge to dumb it d
by dons 13y ago
> If the last sentence read to you like some Haskellish solution to a self-inflicted problem,
Language design is a formal discipline. Why the urge to dumb it down?
- rohshall 13y agoExactly, there is a tendency among dynamic language proponents to think that programming in a statically type checking language is masochistic.
- brudgers 13y agoWhen that is all that was taken away from a detailed and well written technical article, it is easy to see the problem with language tribalism. That's a joke, son. --F. Leghorn It also illustrates the danger for authors of leading with a joke at someone else's expense. All that effort to carefully explain the ideas, why they are valuable, and how they can be used gets collapsed into a religious dispute over type safety.
- nine_k 13y agoConsidering the fair amount of FP stuff in Python in general, and certain parallels with Haskell in particular (not only e.g. comprehensions, but even the significant whitespace), the joke does not look snarky — at least, to me.