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"We crafted a fake satirical post lampooning Haskell as an unusable, overly complex turd -- a writing task that was emotionally difficult but conceptually trivi
by j_baker 16y ago
"We crafted a fake satirical post lampooning Haskell as an unusable, overly complex turd -- a writing task that was emotionally difficult but conceptually trivial." - This is pure gold.
- samstokes 16y agoThe only thing I liked about the article was the implied possibility of that sentence being self-referential.
- gvb 16y agoOn the "truth is stranger than fiction" front, I got a good chuckle from the monads-in-Perl link http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=620692 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=620692: "Anyway, I think it would be worth doing, if it could be expressed readably, but I was not able to figure out a way to do that." There is some deep irony in monads in Perl not being readable enough for Perl.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoActually, the "modern Perl" people are promoting a Perl style where your program contains more letters than special characters. They seem quite influential.