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Does anyone remember when he wrote this?

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.ht...

And in the comments section he got lit up because he was unfamiliar with Haskell/Scala/OCaml type languages...

and here he is 9 years late to the party touting a baby version of these statically typed FP languages. I actually laughed out loud reading this blog post.

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I mean guys been blogging for ages and it's been like a decade so maybe his position changed or he is contradicting himself.

No dog in the fight personally as I don't use any of that stuff. Maybe I am missing some deep technical blunder but on the face of it seems a bit silly to cite the guys decade old work against his current; then be surprised they aren't fluidly consistent..

It's not that there's anything wrong with someone changing their mind. I certainly thought FP was useless ten years ago, java was the best and generally had some bad ideas about software engineering. However, the difference is I had the sense to not blog about things I only had cursory knowledge of while attempting to sound like the ultimate authority on the matter...

Yegge wrote about using Ocaml and other FP's in 2004 https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/more-ocaml

> blog about things I only had cursory knowledge of

Also known as "blogging."

    > and here he is 9 years late to the party

Well, is he? He was talking about JavaScript on the server side even before Node.js existed, and now we see that it took off as one of the most popular platforms, surpassing Ruby on Rails.

Netscape Enterprise Server was shipping server-side JS in the 90s. I used LiveScript in a project (it could also call into JVM classes). NES was nasty to setup and configure and there were oodles of limitations, but Node.js didn't invent the idea of server side JS, it just made it practical.

Well, here he says that kotlin is better than java, not that statycal typing is better, so it's not an argument in favor of one of those "all frog legs and calf brains and truffled snails" languages;)

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