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5 Sep 2024 03:21:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart  
From: Invisible
Date: 20 Nov 2009 05:05:54
Message: <4b066a02$1@news.povray.org>
Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Granted, doing something like that would be technically brilliant in my 
> book.
> 
> But to what end?
> 
> There are ways to waste time and then there are WAYS to waste time...! ;)
> 
> The only people you might impress with something like that would be your D & 
> D buddy whose got skin like a mole and never leaves his basement and his PC 
> except to DM your newest AD & D session or chair the local Warhammer club's 
> meeting.
> 
> Most other people would probably just go "dude WTF!"

...I write computer programs in a non-strict purely-functional 
programming language with extended Miller-Hindley type inference, 
monadic effects and nested data parallelism.

I win?


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