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Re:Haskell, Monads and Purity by cbd1984 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @02:31AM (#8408947)
> Haskell won, even beating the reference 'C' implementation

This has always interested me. I have never gotten an answer, and I suppose I can't seriously expect one now, but I am still compelled to ask:

Why did you put C in quotes up there? Why isn't Haskell in quotes? You didn't put C in quotes in other parts, but that isn't what I'm talking about.

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Re:Haskell, Monads and Purity by zoomerang on Saturday October 04, 2014 @04:21AM (#8409058)
No specific reason really. I didn't think about it at the time, that's just how I typed it.

Probably because C is a single letter, and thus potentially needs some differentiation from the surrounding sentence, whereas Haskell is an actual word. But no idea really.

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Re:Haskell, Monads and Purity by cbd1984 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @06:06PM (#8410805)
Thanks for your answer.
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Re:Haskell, Monads and Purity by iopq on Saturday October 04, 2014 @07:16AM (#8409254)
because 'C' is a char, while Haskell is a string
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Re:Haskell, Monads and Purity by marcosdumay on Saturday October 04, 2014 @01:39PM (#8409982)
But then there should be double quotes.
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