Not sure about the stuff you tagged on afterwards about route to future, etc....but if you'd like to propose an example of a truly out-of-nowhere, no-antecedents, Black Swan-class revolutionary *idea*, we're all ears....your thoughts?

but any language *less* popular than Haskell surely has very little practical value, and I haven't heard of functional languages *more* popular than Haskell.

There is this language called Lisp. Might have heard of it before.

Erlang, also.

I understand the kiddies are feeling the Clojure love these days as well (although I suppose that just ends up categorized as a Lisp subset)

C'mon Guido, you're smarter than this...

I'm not sure they're going for "better discourse" so much as they're going for "less-bad discourse."

So the next set of Snowdens and Mannings will simply have to select a communication nexus other than the Huffington Post website. I think they'll manage.

Since when is "I will find you and kill you" useful feedback, let alone appropriate? And who should have to listen to dreck like that?

Isn't that sorta like abusing the rowing slaves for the lousy conditions on the galley?

One of the strengths of the 21st century reboot has been the consistently good fit of actors to the role. If the franchise did decide it was time for the Doctor to be performed by an actress...who would be the best candidates for the part?

Exactly. Y'all come back to me when you're programming a cell phone switch and then you can talk about low latency...

Amen. And please add "At The Mountains of Madness" to the list.

Criticism is one thing. Premeditated bashing by zealots who have no interest in honestly critiquing, but seek simply to bash your work to pieces because it is not part of their holy canon or is perceived as commiting some sort of cybernetic lese majeste is completely another. I saw no reference to the former in the article, and plenty to the latter.

He's under no obligation to give the latter a podium simply because he's written software.

Acquiring an open, informed opinion can require no small amount of work. If he sets that work as his bar for critique and commentary, I have no problem with it.

Psychoanalysis != the entirety of non-pharma clinical psych. therapy. Quite a few approaches still in use, particularly along cognitive/behavioral lines.

Solipsistic, much, are you?

....we just don't know.

Rebecca, it's not polite to comment on your own article...