I agree with some of these points, but none of them are claims I made in the context of this discussion, so I’m not sure why you’re even arguing about those. It’s irrelevant.

They’re false claims. And I didn’t bring up the false claims FP programmers make until you asked for it to happen. I simply said that rejecting the ridiculous silver bullet claims that FP programmers make is completely fine because they don’t provide any evidence and that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without it.

Not that that matter because all of those claims are demonstrably false anyway!

> -FP will literally suck your peepee

> -Actually FP is the second coming for Christ

On a style point, you've rather undermined yourself that these are common claims because there are entries on this list that are clearly fabricated, as well as others that look like wilful misinterpretations of what someone else said. That casts doubt on the more reasonable entries. There are annoying FP evangelists out there, but the overall tone pattern matches straw-manning.

You'd have made it easier for everyone taking the whole list seriously. Transparently mixing fact and fiction just makes it harder for people who aren't already part of a conversation.

> Functional programmers regularly claim:

> -Haskell is faster than C (lol)

If they regularly claim that you should easily be able to point to several recent examples. Can you?