[theseoafs]

I didn't "dismiss" anything. In fact, I didn't bring up anything about the article other than this one factual inaccuracy. Moreover I pointed out why it wasn't purely functional when someone asked me. What else do I need to do in order to be a good commenter in your eyes?

[peregrine]

Check the HN guidelines re-comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[theseoafs]

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

This is exactly what I did. The author made an error, which I corrected without any other commentary or name-calling, and which the author then corrected. This is the only guideline which is relevant to what I wrote.