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I've never seen criticism of Haskell that was at once so well-informed and so stupendously misguided. It gets under my skin even more since every other point made in the article had my total sympathy. Now I'm going to have to somehow find the time to write a detailed rebuttal.

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I think this is my favorite response ever to anything I've ever written.

I look forward to your rebuttal - if you could post a link to it in the Blogger comments, that would be ideal...

Will do.

I'm certainly no fan of Haskell. But I do like Scala very much and it did come out of academia.

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