[Haskell-cafe] A backhanded compliment and a dilemma

M Farkas-Dyck m.farkasdyck at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 06:30:55 UTC 2016


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.


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