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Re:Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Progra... by j_baker on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @05:53PM (#1960092)
"We crafted a fake satirical post lampooning Haskell as an unusable, overly complex turd -- a writing task that was emotionally difficult but conceptually trivial." - This is pure gold.
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Re:Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Progra... by gvb on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @08:40PM (#1960610)
On the "truth is stranger than fiction" front, I got a good chuckle from the monads-in-Perl link http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=620692:

"Anyway, I think it would be worth doing, if it could be expressed readably, but I was not able to figure out a way to do that."

There is some deep irony in monads in Perl not being readable enough for Perl.

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Re:Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Progra... by JoachimSchipper on Thursday December 02, 2010 @03:39AM (#1961519)
Actually, the "modern Perl" people are promoting a Perl style where your program contains more letters than special characters. They seem quite influential.
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Re:Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Progra... by samstokes on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:44PM (#1960257)
The only thing I liked about the article was the implied possibility of that sentence being self-referential.
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