Regarding the anti-academic tone: I hear you, but you know what they say about converts being the greatest fanatics? There's a certain loud category of people w

Regarding the anti-academic tone: I hear you, but you know what they say about converts being the greatest fanatics? There's a certain loud category of people who have relatively recently achieved illumination with Haskell but have very little of use to tell anyone else about it. Conversations with this type tend to go along the lines of "Haskell is the best"/"Why"/"Static typing, lazy evaluation, purity"/"Why are those good things"/"derisive snort". Usually "blub" gets tossed in there for good measure. Agreed on the generally dismal state of programming education. Usually I'm pretty glad I didn't go to college -- those four years were better spent working on real projects with smart people. But I have been trying to backfill the interesting and useful academic material as I go.