A Haskell programmer and a Python programmer both programmed a CNC machine, and decided to blog about it. One of them talked about an object they milled and the modicum of glue needed to speak G-code, and the other described an elegant algebraic structure using rank-2 polymorphism to express milling paths on any arbitrary manifold embedded in R^3.

Which programmer was more likely to write which blog post?

This little joke is meant to paint a picture for how many programmers see (what they believe is usual) Haskell discourse—like that of the article—perhaps including the commenter you're responding to.

Unfortunately, it's nothing new. America's mainstream historical ethos derives from a deep anti-intellectual sentiment of an expat merchant class who frowned upon academia and the Old World. The Puritans at least left a positive legacy in Boston, despite generally shunning ideas and people who dared to think differently. The American frontier acted as a risk tolerance filter of peoples from around the world to emigrate. There are systemic problems of economic and policing inequality, and under-socialism in the US.

How does America receive those from distant lands now?

What future does America have without prestigious, selective academic institutions except a brain drain exodus?

That’s a very interesting take on things I haven’t heard before, but it seems plausible! Thanks for the insight :-)