That article was a fairly factless rant. To my mind, while there may be good reasons to avoid FPLs, that article doesn&#x27;t present any. It reads like it was written by an angry non-technical co-founder, and its use of images was more appropriate to Buzzfeed than HN. There are certainly more businesses where an army of mediocre Java or PHP programmers are sufficient to keep a piece of software in a useful state than there are environments where you need FPLs, but blanket condemnation is not really worth the time it takes to read. Also, equating a $60k PHP dev and a $150k Haskell dev is likely to be a serious error. And of course, describing FPLs as Turing Tarpits is indefensible.<p>In other words, there&#x27;s not much in that article to discuss.