Re: [Haskell-cafe] A backhanded compliment and a dilemma

On 19/10/2016, Tobias Dammers wrote:

Consider this: the most popular programming languages overall are (arguably) PHP and Java, despite being almost half a century behind the state of the art of programming language design in many ways. Ask yourself why that is (and no, I haven't fully figured this one out myself either).

Some people like to be tied up and whipped; i think it's the same phenomenon.