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For one thing, maybe he could try actually reading a doctoral thesis in any field of computer science before spouting bullshit about whether or not they employ the scientific method.
Maybe instead of limiting the papers he reads to technical discussions abot programming languages that he's clearly not equipped to understand anyway, he could check out areas related to image processing, or data compression, where the existance of pretty tables should at least be able to get through to him that proper experimentation has been involved.
Also, Python got list comprehensions, a pretty major feature, from Haskell, thus validating the flow of ideas from research lanugages to pragmatic languages, and probably rendering most of his ranting moot.
I didn't read the whole thing either.