[vmchale]

> If you put the most valuable thing in the universe inside a box that can't be opened or permeated by any force in the universe--then that thing is no longer valuable. Go find the former #2. If you have a programming ideal and that ideal requires laziness--then you've messed up. You have to conclude that there was something flawed about the ideal.

Not at all what I am talking about.

Please consult the literature on the subject and then we can continue this conversation as equals.

[star-techate]

> I'll just bet that you haven't read anything, because you disagree with people I think are, like, super-duper smart :)

Maybe if I read enough Foucault, or drink enough bleach, we'll be able to continue this conversation as equals :)

[vmchale]

> I'll just bet that you haven't read anything, because you disagree with people I think are, like, super-duper smart :)

It is quite obvious from what you have said you are not aware of the literature surrounding laziness.

[dang]

Please do not cross into incivility regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[star-techate]

Yeah, there's no amount of bigoted "Haskell uber alles" posturing that can replace a simple, supported argument. None of the reading you think you've done, and I haven't, has succeeded in distinguishing your output from that of a complete poser.

[dang]

Please don't become uncivil on HN, regardless of whether the other person started it or did worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html