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by skrebbel 4076 days ago
What the...? You know full well what kind of complexity the GP refers to, and it's not cyclomatic or algorithmic complexity, and definitely not unfamiliarity.

Is this a new kind of HN trolling? Instead of directly disagreeing with an argument on it's merits, you call a commenter out on possibly ambiguous terminology and use that to dismiss the entire comment?

Your entire lecture is true, but it does not apply to the sentence you quoted at all. That sentence is about some Haskellers' tendency to sacrifice readability in favor of better static checks. He could've written "difficult to understand" instead of "complex" and his comment wouldn't have changed meaning and your entire comment would've been void.