Re: Unlearning Pattern Matching

Chris Russell wrote:

Obviously you haven't read Dijkstra's PATTERN MATCHING considered
harmful.

From the highlights:

[ lots of flaming ]

English is not my native language, so maybe I'm missing something, but is
there some objective critic about pattern matching in this flaming or is
Dijkstra just jealous that he doesn't invented pattern matching?

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