Research breakthrough from the Haskell team

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 04/12/2010 12:30, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 3/12/10 1:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We certainly could learn from it:
>>
>> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Seems to have touched a nerve with Bartosz!
>
> ...
>
> Bartosz Milewski said...
> Whatever bit you, Stevey? Why rant against Haskell? Have you been
> recently bullied by Haskellites? I thought they were pretty harmless.
>
> BTW, since when are you running on a populist platform? I mean, you'll
> get a lot of votes from yahoos who don't give a shit about anything that
> happens outside of their villages. You're giving them an excuse to
> dismiss and ridicule anything they don't understand, not only monads or
> category theory. I can see them marching behind you with pitchforks and
> torches ready to ban exceptions, templates, STL, and all this highbrow
> stuff. It would be funny if it weren't already happening even at the top
> software companies (how modern are the Google coding standards?).
>
> ...
>
> I think Bartosz makes a good point about Steve's post giving people a
> reason to dismiss things they don't understand. On the other hand, Steve
> does highlight the fact that those ultra-abstract features are just
> meaningless to the vast majority of programmers.
>

I wonder what he means with the "It would be funny if it weren't already 
happening even at the top software companies (how modern are the Google 
coding standards?)". Like, are they banning some stuff from C++ or other 
languages that they perceive as "highbrow" ?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer