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		lallysingh on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming (2... SHH!! DON'T TELL THEM THE PLOT! We have to let them think that they're in control... That their languages are "just happening" to slowly evolve into shitty variants of Haskell.

krapht on June 1, 2019 | [–]

And Haskell is just a shitty version of a language with real dependent types. Seriously, language flaming is dumb.

JadeNB on June 1, 2019 | [–]

Wadler's version of Greenspun's 10th law?

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