[jblow]

Creepy reply is creepy.

About this:

"Plus, I mean, what if I revealed myself to you, and then you were like, oh shit, I better take what he says a little bit more seriously, wouldn't that just be embarrassing? I don't want to do that to you."

No, by all means, go ahead. I am interested in having a productive discussion about programming, so if you can share your experience in a way that convinces me, I am totally open to it. If it turns out I am wrong, I won't be embarrassed, I will just change my opinion so that I am not wrong any more. This is how one becomes a good programmer in the first place: by paying attention to what is empirically true, rather than what one is originally taught or what seems exciting or what is in theory better.

[eru]

John Hughes makes a good argument in favour of rigidity in "Why Functional Programming matter" (e.g. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pd...)

[georgeorwell]

I cut out the creepy parts, I agree that they were. I can't reveal my experience without breaking anonymity. If you need to know about my experience for my examples and arguments to hold water, then my points aren't very good anyway, which is why I prefer to stay anonymous. Good luck with The Witness and I'm sorry that this was painful. Symbolism and meaning in games are important and I appreciate what you are doing.