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		PaulHoule on Jan 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) Ugh, is this a guy who learned his CS from reading Proggit? There's no way you can say Haskell is "orders of magnitude better than Java"; maybe it's better, but it's not that much better.

tene on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

o_O

No. No he did not learn CS from reading Proggit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Life_and_wor...

agumonkey on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

It's a transcript from Dijsktra's letter.

PaulHoule on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, I know.

Dijstrka is pretty famous for picking the wrong side of fights about programming languages.

hashtree on Jan 8, 2014 | | [–]

Perhaps by popularity and usage in corporate. In every other way, I'd say he is spot on.

Signed,

Numerous jvm lang and haskell programmer

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