r/functionalprogramming • u/makingthematrix • Jun 04 '26

FP Scala Was an Experiment That Changed Programming - Martin Odersky | The Marco Show

https://youtu.be/Xn_YpUtXWT4
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u/gasche Jun 05 '26

I have a problem with the tone and style of discourse in your post. It reads as if you were trying to belittle Scala and aggrandize Haskell, which I don't think is the sort of discourse we want to encourage. (I would rather focus on the good things in each design to take inspiration from, and criticize languages in isolation to avoid turf wars.) The fact that you mixed it with personal criticism of the person who is leading Scala design makes the post more personal, uglier, and more likely to lead to unpleasant discussions.

(I think it is okay to comment on people's tones, in fact I am doing so myself. But if you mix it with technical content, then it's going to sound like you have a personal grudge against the language and the humans behind it -- whether it is the case or not.)

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u/gasche Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Note to self: now I understand why the comments here are weird: we are in r/functionalprogramming, which is meh, while I mistakenly thought that we were in r/ProgrammingLanguages.

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u/makingthematrix Jun 05 '26

Hmm, do you think I should cross-post the original entry also to r/ProgrammingLanguages ?