[Haskell-cafe] A backhanded compliment and a dilemma

[M Farkas-Dyck]

On 19/10/2016, Tobias Dammers <tdammers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider this: the most popular programming languages overall are
> (arguably) PHP and Java, despite being almost half a century behind the
> state of the art of programming language design in many ways. Ask yourself
> why that is (and no, I haven't fully figured this one out myself either).

Some people like to be tied up and whipped; i think it's the same phenomenon.