Hacker News Reader

If you want to talk about lazyness, I'd have to refer you to the discussion between Robert Harper and Lennart Augustsson in 2011 on Robert's blog.

View on HN

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/the-real-po...

... is this what you mean?

I revere Harper, but his anti-Haskell rants just seem unhinged to me.

Yeah, when reading Harper it's best to skip over the opinion parts and just read the technical content (which is fortunately plentiful). I always feel as if he's jealous of Haskell's success.

My mental image of Harper writing his blog posts looks pretty much like John Lithgow in "Buckaroo Banzai". Which is unfair, but geez, just read them.

Thanks, that's the post.

I've heard bad things about Harper, but then he's an accomplished fellow, which doesn't mean he has to be nice. I only expect him to be truthful, is all. Maybe he's just ML's LISP zealot like the now deceased Dane whose name I forgot.

Erik Naggum, from Norway.

Harper is nowhere near as bad, fortunately. No F-bombs, for one thing. Harper is opinionated, curmudgeonly and sometimes arguably unfair, but he always backs up his opinions with reasoned arguments. Even when you don't like the way he expresses himself, he always has something insightful to say.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com