Okay, but what that has to do with preferring strong CS theoretical grounds vs. cutting corners to get-the-shit-done?
My initial point was about cultures - Haskelites are typically very smart, extremely mathy, and they'd often choose certain ways even if it takes them forever and requires reading and analyzing dozens of academic papers, just because "Galois was a genius and we can make this theory fit here, because then we can center infinite divs on infinitely large DOM entities...", then publishes a paper "Coequalizers for Vertical Alignment: A Comonadic Approach"
A Lisper would be like: "Ahem... I wrapped the whole thing in a macro. Yes, it evals a string. Yes, the string is generated by another macro. No, I will not be explaining it. It shipped Tuesday, it prints money, it works. Gotta go, kids need dinner.."
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Okay, but what that has to do with preferring strong CS theoretical grounds vs. cutting corners to get-the-shit-done?
My initial point was about cultures - Haskelites are typically very smart, extremely mathy, and they'd often choose certain ways even if it takes them forever and requires reading and analyzing dozens of academic papers, just because "Galois was a genius and we can make this theory fit here, because then we can center infinite divs on infinitely large DOM entities...", then publishes a paper "Coequalizers for Vertical Alignment: A Comonadic Approach"
A Lisper would be like: "Ahem... I wrapped the whole thing in a macro. Yes, it evals a string. Yes, the string is generated by another macro. No, I will not be explaining it. It shipped Tuesday, it prints money, it works. Gotta go, kids need dinner.."