The talk he's defending was tiresome and dripping with condescension (I agree with Stephen Diehl: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/519160854517149696 https://

The talk he's defending was tiresome and dripping with condescension (I agree with Stephen Diehl: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/519160854517149696 https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/519160854517149696). Typed-language folks don't need advocates who waste breath talking about "incompetent Ruby developers moving to Clojure" and whatnot. There's enough positive stuff to talk about! I think the folks who gave that talk need to read Gershom Bazerman's (a person who has no trouble giving talks filled with excitement about type- and category-theoretic concepts with no condescension) excellent post here: http://comonad.com/reader/2014/letter-to-a-young-haskell-enthusiast/ http://comonad.com/reader/2014/letter-to-a-young-haskell-ent...