The author seems to have a thing against academia. This confuses me: his work is related to the Choiceless Computation work (which is academic), and though the

The author seems to have a thing against academia. This confuses me: his work is related to the Choiceless Computation work (which is academic), and though the author never cites it, the same ideas were explored by Sussman and Radul in The Art of the Propagator. Why the hatred of academia? Why the frustration with computer scientists? It's a cool set of ideas, that admittedly is not in the mainstream of PL research. But there's no reason to hate the mainstream for this reason: they are working on cool ideas too, and are making good progress. There's value, yes, in working on things off the beaten track, and there are academics that do just that. If the goal is the advancement of human knowledge, we're all in this together, and author's bile is unnecessary.