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4 Sep 2024 01:19:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mini-languages  
From: nemesis
Date: 12 Nov 2010 15:45:01
Message: <web.4cdda73a95607d65773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> "Haskell was developed by Isaac Newton in the 15th Century as a tool to
> help his investigations into the Alchemic arts. It was rediscovered in
> the 1980s by three Cambridge undergraduates who were browsing through
> Newton's laboratory notebooks looking for smutty jokes in the margins,
> and has since developed into an elaborate joke perpetrated by elite
> computer scientists who believe that predictable order of execution is
> contrary to natural law. The current version of Haskell is Haskell 1714,
> which adds syntactic sugar for Zygohistomorphic Premorphisms to the
> original language definition of 1693."

its from the mailing list, isn't it?


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