Littlebigo

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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   Freedom to not have any vacations for years, freedom to not get medical aid, freedom to get fired over Twitter on a whim, freedom to get shot by the police, freedom to be subject to government surveillance, freedom to have a flawed democrac
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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   I absolutely agree, I was just adding the explanation for anyone unfamiliar with the syntax.
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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   Well... chances are you've made thousands of phone calls through switches running Erlang. You may have used Emacs, Discord, Facebook, Pinterest, Spotify, Font Awesome, xmonad or visited web sites running Elm or an Elixir backend... or
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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   To add, I suspect that the Haskell type notation is not intuitive to people not familiar with it. For anyone wondering, (a -> b) -> f a -> f b means "A function taking a function from one type to another "(a -> b)&quot
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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   The article is likely aimed at intermediate-ish FP programmers, though, not people with no prior knowledge. (Although I suspect it is an example of "learning by teaching", since it is wrong on many counts.) Learn You a Haskell men
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   by Littlebigo 5y ago

   I very much agree with part of your point, especially the novice-intermediate-expert part on jargon. I generally favor wording that is as simple as possible, but no simpler . Sometimes technical precision is important, and when talking to