[jasonwocky]

It's not an appeal to authority. It's Bayesian probability.

P(author_doing_fp_wrong) < P(author_doing_fp_wrong | author_invented_erlang)

[chc]

Not sure if you got your sign backwards or if this is a really nerdy burn on Erlang.

[jasonwocky]

damn! sign backwards! /blush

[abraininavat]

Even with your operator fixed, this is still bull. This only only instructive if you have zero external knowledge regarding the context. Since we can read Joe Armstrong's words, and since we can read arianvanp's objection, and since most of us have brains, we can and should do a lot better than "bayesian probability".