I've just started having a play with Haskell which I got interested in after working through the seven languages in seven weeks book.
I've not really seen much smugness in the Haskell community. Though there are some proper clever people talking about stuff I don't understand, I don't feel they've done it in a patronizing way (or at least its been to subtle for me to pick up on!) That's my experience anyhow. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data.
I'm actually more interested in the second part of the article where the author talks about claims of productivity gains from functional programming being exaggerated. I am curious if folk on here can point to counterexamples to the study quoted.
My strong suspicion is that there is much more likely to be a large variance in the productivity of programmers than in the productiveness of a particular language or way of programming.
I've not really seen much smugness in the Haskell community. Though there are some proper clever people talking about stuff I don't understand, I don't feel they've done it in a patronizing way (or at least its been to subtle for me to pick up on!) That's my experience anyhow. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data.
I'm actually more interested in the second part of the article where the author talks about claims of productivity gains from functional programming being exaggerated. I am curious if folk on here can point to counterexamples to the study quoted.
My strong suspicion is that there is much more likely to be a large variance in the productivity of programmers than in the productiveness of a particular language or way of programming.