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Comment by chetanahuja | Hacker News Reader

"I was under the impression he was speaking of parallel programming (software algorithms utilizing parallelism,) not sequential code running in parallel"

The argument was about squandering the powerful multi-core hardware because of deficiencies in imperative languages. No notion of some platonic ideal of a parallel application was raised.

My point is that the "squandering" claim is clearly and obviously false as I argued above.

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I agree that the use of the word 'squandering' is provocative and incorrect. reddit points out that he is evangelizing Haskell (FPComplete) and trolling C++ users on Twitter ("I used to be a C++ masochist") He doesn't make his financial bias clear in the article, which would have been helpful for those not familiar with him.

Ouch! Ad personam attacks are a sign of desperation. For the record, I used to work for FPComplete (I architected the School of Haskell) but I quit. It was an interesting experience, having seen a whole complex web site and an online Haskell IDE built in record time by a few Haskell programmers.

Sorry man! If you read the rest of my posts I was agreeing with you. I was just trying to address the reaction chetanahuja had to your article to say I wasn't blinded and had healthy skeptism, but I still agreed whole-heartedly with you. C++ is great for special circumstances but I'd hate to have to go back to it for general coding. Functional programming offers some very intriguing ideas, which I'm only starting to grasp. I don't really mind you being provocative because it provokes and discussion follows.

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