That they did, indeed. And they honestly never really adhered to it either. It was just a knee-jerk reaction to a (I believe Haskell) presentation that said so

That they did, indeed. And they honestly never really adhered to it either. It was just a knee-jerk reaction to a (I believe Haskell) presentation that said something like "we got n ways to do x", where n was in the double digits and x was something extremely uninteresting like looping over an array. Can't really recall details though, it was old knowledge by the time I Heard about it around 2010 and a quick Google didn't help me dig it up