Comment by throwaway2037
2 years ago
The blog post has some reference numbers embedded, but I cannot find the references below. (Did I miss something?) Specifically, the author hinted about a language and a company for #1. I guess this is Jane Street with OCaml? To be clear, you can make any insane language choice that you wish, so long as you pay so much money that no one will care. Exhibit A: Jane Street with OCaml
Ah, I think you're referencing the sidenotes. Sometimes the website doesn't render properly on mobile (I've tried getting click-to-expand working, but it's tricky), so try reading in desktop mode.
Regarding sidenote #1, I actually very deliberately did not mention the language or company ;) Here's the full text of the sidenote, if you're still unable to get it rendering:
> I'm not going to name the language itself, because this post would just turn into a flame war over that language specifically, and I definitely don't want to cast shade on any language/community in particular. I'm also kind of hoping that the most annoying people read this and think, "Ah, of course he's talking about that language over there! This criticism obviously doesn't apply to my perfect and favorite language!" Regardless, I feel that the thesis and content of this post applies pretty evenly to most functional programming languages.