70 pointsby ciderpunxover 11 years ago

6 comments

dminorover 11 years ago

> Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.<p>Ok, that's pretty brilliant :)

nullspaceover 11 years ago

Heh, the LISP bullet is the only one with footnotes. Very subtle :)

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vezzy-fnordover 11 years ago

Still a good read a few years later.

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raverbashingover 11 years ago

This gets reposted every now and then<p>But it's still funny every time

ciderpunxover 11 years ago

Heh:<p>> Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

aidenn0over 11 years ago

This is a blogpost I have bookmarked and go back to read several times a year. It's the only blog post I have ever done that for.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)