You'll notice this by seeing that in non-Haskell threads, critical remarks about Haskell are upvoted, while in 'Haskell threads' such as this one where an echo chamber forms, anything critical about Haskell will be downvoted. It's an interesting behavior, but it says a lot more about certain cliques than it does about HN.
Don't worry about it too much and get on with actually using practical tools to solve real problems and leave the echo chamber in their own peaceful world. Everyone is much better off.
So when someone out of college makes more than someone with 10 years experience, they assume this must be due to agism, since the 10 years experience must, in their view, be more important than being one of the top graduates of that year.
On the original comment, I usually associate Haskell with younger programmers, since it is taught in many schools like MIT and UW. So I found the comment a bit grating since I thought Haskell was the one thing we could have.
Huh. FWIW, I associate it more with older programmers. Certainly, some of the more interesting and visible members of the Bay Area meetup are older than me and I'm not fresh out of school.
No it isn't.
>I think it's annoying.
Ok, but that doesn't support the claim you made and I questioned.
On the other hand if you take a 20 year old student still doing their undergraduate degree (like many of the people in the classes I TA), and try to explain the value of immutable data, many of them just don't get it. It has nothing to do with their intelligence or age, but the fact that they haven't written enough code to develop a sense of why such a thing would be useful.
If you want example apps their are plenty littering the internet all covering the various web frameworks, for example here is one covering Happstack: http://happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/index.html
All you keep saying is 'no its not'. And then trying to move on as if that's the final word. Not interested in talking to you bro, we're not going to come to any kind of understanding.