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There’s a joke in the fp community I can’t find right now that describes the evolution of programs from imperative side-effectful statements to a for comprehens
by eecc 5y ago
There’s a joke in the fp community I can’t find right now that describes the evolution of programs from imperative side-effectful statements to a for comprehension, with exception catching, that looks nearly identical.
- bryik 5y agoProbably not the right one, but "The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer"[0] sounds like a similar idea which goes from a Freshman Haskell programmer's simple factorial to the abstract heights of a Post-doc Haskell programmer, then back down to a Tenured professor's simple factorial. 0 - http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html?