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You're correct, obviously. I'm in awe. Good for you for being right about everything. Congrats.

You can do better, then. Read nendroids latest reply to me, and help them understand that it's the "use of statements" that makes a language imperative, not the "modification of st…

>Mutable state means imperative instructions. It does not. I don't know where you got that idea, or why you just keep repeating it, but at this point your thoughts on the matter ar…

That is absurd. You could work yourself to death scrubbing dishes and it will never match the returns of inheriting a fortune from your parents. You do not live in a world where we…

>What variable or data was mutated within haskell? The stdout buffer. Just because mutation isn't explicit doesn't mean it isn't there. Programming languages are not syntax devoid …

What's the difference? Let me quote them directly: "Oh, you're one of THOSE people." ( What people? ) "Trump is not being impeached." (Simple to verify, not up for debate.) "Biden …

> Your haskell program does not mutate. Then it doesn't work. Every Haskell program does nothing, because mutation of program state does not occur. You're just trolling at this poi…

You said FP "breaks down" when handling mutability, and you attributed that to some vague sense in which "mathematics" is the cause of it. I have no bias for FP. I just don't under…

Mathematicians have no trouble modeling change. There are many ways to do so. Some are algebraic, some are not. There is nothing wrong with modelling mutability using immutable str…

>Not all aspects of programming can be described by math. This is completely untrue. You may not be familiar with the math, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you can model…

The primary difference between computer science and mathematics proper is an overt concern for performance. Mathematical elegance and computational efficiency are not the same thin…

Not that I'm disagreeing with you in any way, but it's worth recognizing that imperative languages typically do pattern matching and type constraining in a declarative manner. So o…

I've disowned by family for their willingness to reject common and simple facts, their hostile attitude, their repeated willingness to denigrate all I stand for, and an utter lack …

>However, when someone responds in a way that says they are willing to at least consider an opposing view, I will have a conversation. But what if they don't want a conversation? W…

Would you rather have an expert in Rust doing web programming in Rust, or a novice in JS doing web programming in JS? The best language to use is the one you know how to use best. …

There's always been people who believe in nonsense. Most people, throughout most of history have. The meaning of "post-truth" today is that people in power are no longer being aske…

That's a disingenuous narrative. Truth can ultimately be verified independent of belief. That's what makes it true. If your idea if truth is such that it can be dictated by politic…

How the hell is a 10% survival rate "not optimism?" Try a trillionth of a percent. It makes an astronomical time difference.

>In 40 generations of space colonization, that's 40 times 30,000 times however long it takes to rebuild the capability on each colony. Assuming each generation survives. Stop makin…

A decade out of date? It'll take you 30,000 years to reach the nearest star at the rate of the fastest moving object ever constructed by man. If anything any of us are talking abou…

It's not a powerful argument for 'we must be alone', because it's an equally powerful argument for 'space colonization is nearly impossible.' You're saying things are "certainly po…

It is a paradox. It assumes you have a definition of uninteresting number such that you can select the least uninteresting number, and then retroactively defines that number to be …

I don't have to justify myself to you. Go goad someone who cares what you think.

I'm not going to explain to you how fame and media attention are exceptional. It should be obvious to anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass. I guess if you want to claim …