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Now a days the equivalent would probably be rewriting from rust into python.

I don't know what it is about languages that make them attract these dogmatic communities, but it seems to be ever present.

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It's a topic that attracts a lot of people who don't know much. Discussing the fine points of program architecture is hard and requires knowledge. Shilling your favorite language is fun and requires nothing more than faith.

Or in the case of Haskell, obvious superiority!! That was a joke. I'm still learning Haskell but it's a lot of fun.

Not just supperiority; you also have to memorize the phrase "curry-howard isomorphism". /s

I'll have supperiority for dinner

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