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by Raphael_Amiard 4167 days ago
This is pure argument from authority, but I'm gonna take the bait anyway.

> Martin Fowler

What has this guy done except writing books about "the best way to program" without ever designing a full system himself ?

> Guido van Rossum, Yukihiro Matsumoto

Those guys are just language designers, and the language they designed are just as questionnable as the functional ones, so why do they get a pass actually ? Because their languages are more used ? Do you want to follow suit and say that COBOL creators are probably part of the "world's most experienced programmers" ? What about PHP ?

There are some good points and critiques about the practicality of functional languages, but you don't actually touch on any of them here.