Re: [Haskell-cafe] Typefuck: Brainfuck in the type system

My personal opinion is that such f-bombs really have no place on what is a font of software dissemination. My point of view is a fallacy however. Consider a new, viable programming language which has a syntax based entirely on GG-Allin lyrics. Obviously this would disgust a decent programmer (aren't we all decent :) One would be pressed to prove that this new language has no scientific value only in order to avoid his disgusting poetry, which could be difficult (and perhaps pointless, which would be worse than difficult) But I think I am fuzzing out beyond what the point of this originally was... yes - this discussion reminds me of both Wadler's law and the phenomenon of Cargo Cults, as according to the Wiki Wiki web (see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CargoCult) -- what I mean by this is that however it might be labelled on a software archive, such a program is surely and deeply ****ed. Johnny On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:28 -0500, Joe Fredette wrote:

Well then, send it up to the great Hackage machine! If the f-bombs are allowed...

I think my package names are about to get alot less SFW...

On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Joe Fredette wrote:

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Awesome, however, I don't know what the policy is for such -- interesting -- names on Hackage. Normally I believe the response to "Should I put it on Hackage" is a resounding, immediate "Absolutely." In this case, perhaps a small name change to avoid any possibility of offense?

/Joe

Too late: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brainfuck http://hackage.haskell.org/package/loli

-- gwern