[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Off-topic] Loss of humour

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:21:32 +0200, dermiste wrote:

The sixth quote :

--- Michael Schuerig wrote:

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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson wrote:

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The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight, and you could only master *one* language as your weapon of choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?

Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi seem to be somewhat conservative and CL beautifully captures the anachronistic elegance and power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi generations might choose more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being among the contenders.

http://www.xkcd.com/297/

But you missed the punchline:

seen on The Pragmatic Programmer's yahoo mailing list:

From: Ronald Legere Subject: Re: Jedi Programming (was: [pragprog] Common List or Dylan?) To: pragprog@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 03:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: pragprog@yahoogroups.com

No no no, a jedi master must fashion his OWN language.

<*grin*>

--- Michael Schuerig wrote:

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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson wrote:

...

The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight, and you could only master *one* language as your weapon of choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?

Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi seem to be somewhat conservative and CL beautifully captures the anachronistic elegance and power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi generations might choose more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being among the contenders.

-- Benjamin L. Russell