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SPJ is a fool for making those 'clever' statements like "Haskell is useless!", because most people won't stick around to hear the twist explanation.
by mestonlawest 13y ago
SPJ is a fool for making those 'clever' statements like "Haskell is useless!", because most people won't stick around to hear the twist explanation.
- freyrs3 13y agoI think you have it backwards. If someone forms opinions on languages based on out of context quotations then they are the fool, not SPJ.
- phaer 13y agoThe explanation of this particular quote is like 5 minutes long on YouTube. If you don't spend that much time to listen to an argument, it's unlikely that you have a well founded opinion on programming languages anyway.
- efnx 13y agoI don't think at the time he was trying to be clever. If you watch the talk you'll see it makes a lot of sense to make this statement in its context. Also - Haskell will either be very popular or not, based on its merits in industry. I doubt the fallout from these type of statements will amount to much in the long run.