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by wand3r 3326 days ago
I mean guys been blogging for ages and it's been like a decade so maybe his position changed or he is contradicting himself.

No dog in the fight personally as I don't use any of that stuff. Maybe I am missing some deep technical blunder but on the face of it seems a bit silly to cite the guys decade old work against his current; then be surprised they aren't fluidly consistent..

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It's not that there's anything wrong with someone changing their mind. I certainly thought FP was useless ten years ago, java was the best and generally had some bad ideas about software engineering. However, the difference is I had the sense to not blog about things I only had cursory knowledge of while attempting to sound like the ultimate authority on the matter...
> blog about things I only had cursory knowledge of

Also known as "blogging."

Yegge wrote about using Ocaml and other FP's in 2004 https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/more-ocaml