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Given your rather patronising replies, I suspect the original joke was lost on you. The issue is not Agile per se, it is organisations assuming that "Agile" will solve all their pr…

It was joke. Your position looks rather like the true Scottmans fallacy to me.

The evidence you provided was for strawman arguments, something you accused me of. I'm sure Smalltalk can be easier / more "productive" than Haskell, but I never made any claims ab…

> Nope, I actually have empirical (and other) evidence. You haven't provided any concrete evidence. Certainly no more than I have. > But you cited unity as evidence for FP being su…

Any statically typed language allows one to use dynamic types when it is necessary. I don't see the problem. If you need a map of string keys to variants, this can be done. At leas…

> You are making a lot of unsubstantiated claims. As are you! 1. I did not claim unity moved to FP, I said they dropped OOP and went to a data-centric processing. Even C (with Clan…

1. FP is easier to optimise and is data-centric, which is much more useful for parallel processing. For example, game engines like Unity have been forced to move away from OOP and …

The attraction of "functional programming" to academics and many others, is that the paradigm is underpinned by established and well studied mathematical logics. For example, the l…

> one of the places where computer science has gone backward, preferring more clunky systems and less elegant paradigms I respectfully disagree. Smalltalk has had its time. OOP has…

Is there any operating system left now that isn't riddled with bugs? I blame Agile.

I could not find any add-on (that still works) to give me back my tray icons. Not even Apple would take this feature away.

It's worse than that. The desktop efforts are heavily fragmented and arguably the leader, RedHat's "Gnome", while quite polished, is actually quite user hostile (e.g. works very di…

Good point, but IIRC Dijkstra didn't like Fortran either. ALGOL (1958) used ":=" for assignment, as did Pascal some years later.

When BASIC e.g. redefined what "variables" are and what the equals operator means, it did cause a generation of programmers to drift away from the long established mathematical def…

> the phrase "avoid success at all cost" in a certain context which may have had some role in making Haskell seem Ivory Towerish. This phrase is often misunderstood, it's "avoid, s…

> Specifically, I have a problem with any operating system that will update itself in arbitrary ways without our consent and at a time we have not chosen. I was sitting in a keynot…

The global menu bar is great for laptops and small screens. I'm less convinced it makes sense for big cinema displays or dual displays.

Or maybe it's because people want to build software that is more secure and reliable (something which C does not have a great track record for)? Google are not the main instigator …

You have to choose between stability and the latest/greatest. You cannot have both. Not even Apple users get both.

I have lots of hybrid SACDs and I cannot extract the high-res content for playback on computer/phone without my clunky Sony Blu-ray player. This is of course by design, but I do wo…

KDE looks really good too, but I mostly prefer the minimalism/simplicity/aesthetic of Gnome.

Well Fedora is bleeding edge, RedHat's equivalent to Windows insider builds. Try Ubuntu LTS or Debian.

I've been using i3 up until recently. I'm trying out Gnome because it works out-of-the-box and e.g. Sway does not. Yes the software churn is rather worrying. I hope they learn from…

I agree that the reason does not matter and is irrelevant to the end-user. I was just speculating as to why they have not "just fixed it". However, I disagree that Windows is more …

Is that relevant to Gnome? It's used the same file manager "Nautilus" for years. Apple and Microsoft are also quite capable of killing software projects.