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This sort of "lispers are hipsters", "haskellers are hipsters" comments are very destructive to our community yet I see them in every single lisp thread. Very unfortunate. I only wish this will stop one day.

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In the meantime while they argue, the neanderthals in the games industry are building their products in C++ and making millions of dollars. Heathens!

Does this comment imply the only (reliable) way to make million dollars is using C++? My company uses (mostly) python and we're making millions of dollars too. It's almost as if for every different task there might be a better tool solving the problem.

No it doesn't, I think you may be reading way too much into my comment.

I have a very-very good Haskell programming friend, and quite a few times I caught him start speaking in technobabble to impress a couple of blubers.

I also have a few Scala friends, and I can see the obvious Haskell envy they have, they feel the need to become good at it to prove their alphaness.

So what? My whole point is that discussing these sort of social "issues" in lisp/haskell community adds nothing to the discussion at hand. It doesn't have any implication to lisp or haskell, we learn nothing from these sort of comments. They're just visual noise, almost put as a bait to trigger an ad hominem comment chain.

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