Re:‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library
by the_af on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:26PM
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Note Robert Harper, the author of Existential Type and one of the big names in ML, has a bizarre crusade against Haskell.
I find it weird that so many of his articles seem to be lashing out against (the internet perception) of Haskell, almost a popularity contest between ML and Haskell, when the adoption of either language is marginal and could use some cooperation between the two, instead of framing it as a zero-sum competition. ML and Haskell are allies, not enemies.
This obsession is a shame, since Robert Harper is obviously an intelligent person. I remember some of his feuds with people from the Haskell community were... embarrassing.
Most feuds are embarrassing. The proglang community could do with fewer of those.
I don't remember Simon Peyton Jones ever speaking ill of ML, for example. There's an example to follow!
I find it weird that so many of his articles seem to be lashing out against (the internet perception) of Haskell, almost a popularity contest between ML and Haskell, when the adoption of either language is marginal and could use some cooperation between the two, instead of framing it as a zero-sum competition. ML and Haskell are allies, not enemies.
This obsession is a shame, since Robert Harper is obviously an intelligent person. I remember some of his feuds with people from the Haskell community were... embarrassing.
Most feuds are embarrassing. The proglang community could do with fewer of those.
I don't remember Simon Peyton Jones ever speaking ill of ML, for example. There's an example to follow!