That's an interesting response. It seems to me that the flame level on this site is quite low in response to somewhere like Reddit. People argue here, of course, but usually it's in an informational sort of way and rarely devolves into "yer momma is soooo fat...." kind of discourse.

Yeah, you're right. Civil disagreement is allowed here on HN; anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.

Obviously, Haskell is the superior option here. Anything else is a travesty.

You're WRONG. :D :D

Clojure!

Or was it PHP?

You're close, it's Lisphp, the Lisp built on top of PHP.

How do you find HN compares to Slashdot?

Discussion on hn is higher quality. I'm an almost original slashdot reader, user id is 4 digits. I haven't browsed there in perhaps years at this point.

It's been at least a decade or more since I have been on /. . It really seemed to have went down hill when the Bush election was going on, they did a lot of political coverage and it just ruined the feel of the site. People started exposing their political bent and the site in general just became more snarky.

The Microsoft bashing was better on slashdot though </joke>

I'm still getting used to the idea that Microsoft might not be all evil. It's a weird feeling :)

It is pretty bad now, low signal to noise ratio. Lots of trolling.

Don't read slashdot (never seen it TBH)