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FWIW, I have a number of friends at Verizon Labs doing some pretty cool work with Scala and Haskell.

Just using cool functional languages has little to do with this work culture. Lets not propagate this notion please.

That's not what parent said. You read what you want to read, but parent only said they're doing "cool work" and that cool work happens to be in Scala/Haskell.

Sigh.

I didn't agree with the sentiment either but I think you're stretching here.

If I say "they're doing cool work with clay and steel" that means the coolness is intrinsically linked to those things. That's how I'd read it anyway.

You can do boring work with clay and steel, and you can do cool work with clay and steel. Saying you're doing cool work with clay and steel doesn't imply that "it's cool because it's clay and steel".

There's two ways to read it definitely, but I have a problem when someone decides to read it one way, and complains about that particular interpretation of what they're reading...

There's 10 types of people in the world. The people who assume that you are wrong and interpret your words in the least logical way, and the people who assume that you are reasonable and interpret them in the way that assumes you to be logical.

He said they were doing "cool work" in response to a post about a notoriously bad work culture. So that response was in fact on point.

Unfortunately thats the reality of many 'cool work places' where your years of experience in delivering products will not be important enough if it not in Scala or some such.

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