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I wish I knew enough to appreciate this joke.

• NullPrefix 7y ago
  http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
  • KineticLensman 7y ago
    > 1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie. Not the same joke, but really rather awesome.
• pcstl 7y ago
  You really don't need to know more than "it's technically true, but also completely useless for anything practical".
• non-entity 7y ago
  I'm still a bit starstruck by mildly comical terms like zygohistomorphic prepromorphism
  • gpderetta 7y ago
    /me googles the phrase Oh, you didn't make those up!
    • dhagz 7y ago
      Welcome to functional programming.
• lgas 7y ago
  If it helps, a category is just a monad in the bicategory of spans.