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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 13 Jan 2009 14:23:12
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Me: I hypothesize that for any small snippet of code posted, at least 
one other person will find an alternative way to implement the same 
thing - possibly by a radically different method. We should probably 
have a name for this...

Other dude: "confusion"?

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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 13 Jan 2009 23:36:06
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Me: I hypothesize that for any small snippet of code posted, at least
> one other person will find an alternative way to implement the same
> thing - possibly by a radically different method. We should probably
> have a name for this...
> 
> Other dude: "confusion"?

	Guido would probably like that applied to Python (calling it
"confusion", that is).

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From: somebody
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 14 Jan 2009 11:07:50
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Nobody that I know of says that - or, for that matter, anything else at all
involving Haskell.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 14 Jan 2009 11:14:30
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somebody wrote:
> Nobody that I know of says that - or, for that matter, anything else at all
> involving Haskell.

Yeah, that's about it really...

Although Haskell does have a reputation as being "for boffins only" - 
and boffins have a reputation for not having any humour, so... ;-)


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 14 Jan 2009 15:37:35
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On 14-Jan-09 17:14, Invisible wrote:
> somebody wrote:
>> Nobody that I know of says that - or, for that matter, anything else 
>> at all
>> involving Haskell.
> 
> Yeah, that's about it really...
> 
> Although Haskell does have a reputation as being "for boffins only" - 
> and boffins have a reputation for not having any humour, so... ;-)

Guess where there is a large audience for Adams, Pratchett, Monty Python...


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 15 Jan 2009 03:58:59
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>> Although Haskell does have a reputation as being "for boffins only" - 
>> and boffins have a reputation for not having any humour, so... ;-)
> 
> Guess where there is a large audience for Adams, Pratchett, Monty Python...

Hmm... well... Adams seems popular. Pratchett I have literally *no idea* 
why anybody would like. And Monty Python is sometimes mildly amusing, 
but I don't get the huge fascination...


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 15 Jan 2009 17:30:10
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On 15-Jan-09 9:58, Invisible wrote:
>>> Although Haskell does have a reputation as being "for boffins only" - 
>>> and boffins have a reputation for not having any humour, so... ;-)
>>
>> Guess where there is a large audience for Adams, Pratchett, Monty 
>> Python...
> 
> Hmm... well... Adams seems popular. Pratchett I have literally *no idea* 
> why anybody would like. 

I though you had never read anything by him?

> And Monty Python is sometimes mildly amusing, 
> but I don't get the huge fascination...

I do.


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 15 Jan 2009 17:33:36
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>> Hmm... well... Adams seems popular. Pratchett I have literally *no 
>> idea* why anybody would like. 
> 
> I though you had never read anything by him?

I've spoken to people who have, and none of them liked him. Plus the 
articles on Wikipedia make it sound like the guy was on acid when he 
wrote this stuff. (The selected quotations are pretty disturbing too...)

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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Who says Haskell has no humour?
Date: 15 Jan 2009 17:55:42
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On 15-Jan-09 23:33, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Hmm... well... Adams seems popular. Pratchett I have literally *no 
>>> idea* why anybody would like. 
>>
>> I though you had never read anything by him?
> 
> I've spoken to people who have, and none of them liked him. 

And you have talked to a lot of people that do like him.

> Plus the articles on Wikipedia make it sound like the guy was on acid when he 
> wrote this stuff. (The selected quotations are pretty disturbing too...)

It will all make sense in context. Yes, even the orang utan, the turtle, 
the death of rats and the genetics that could give rise to Miss Susan. 
Besides you are missing a lot of in-jokes here.


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