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I've sadly lost the logs, but I witnessed a great trolling on #haskell, where someone insisted that Haskell's map function was a for loop because the word "fora
by Chattered 12y ago
I've sadly lost the logs, but I witnessed a great trolling on #haskell, where someone insisted that Haskell's map function was a for loop because the word "forall" appears in the type.
That's the good old style of trolling, where someone says something completely ridiculous, but which they could have only arrived at by knowing much better.
- ZoF 12y agoThe best trolls are those that are identifiable to the well informed observer while remaining seemingly genuine to the community at large.
- nomedeplume 12y agoThis triggered the kind of delirious laugh that only 11 hours of billable programming time could enable