My favorite part about this is the introduction, where the authors relate functional programming to Haiku and Karate. Haiku and Karate are both intricate, beaut

My favorite part about this is the introduction, where the authors relate functional programming to Haiku and Karate. Haiku and Karate are both intricate, beautiful, highly regimented arts. But only one is useful in a bar fight, and the people who are its victims don't know about the craft, or why it's effective. So, the paper asks: which is functional programming? Haiku or Karate? (EDIT: And, more personal note: Dan, thanks for posting. :) I assume since you posted this later, you got it from my Twitter, in which case you should also look at the Butler Lampson/Erik Meijer talk that I heard it from, and which I've been trying to get you to watch: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Butler-Lampson-Abstraction-Security-Embodiment https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Erik-Meijer-a...)