Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

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Also... the current Humour page on the Haskell wiki contains a link to Lambdabot's quotes database, but on my system, clicking this link just displays a few hundred pages of gibberish. Is this normal?

Of course it's not. But deciphering is very simple, it's named "gunzip".

Right... so why does it have the MIME type "text/plain"? o_O (Also... how do you know it's ZIP, and not, say, gzip, bz2, RAR, LHA...? I can't see anything that looks like an identifying header in there.)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:09:08 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Jeremy Shaw wrote:

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At Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:45:56 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC quotes. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished. I can't remember where on earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it down. (In particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a typical Haskell newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well it amused *me* anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?

http://web.archive.org/web/20070609061216/http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/Quot...

LOL!

Thanks, that's the one...

You're referring to this one from that page, right?

Ninja Jones does a not-too-far-off parody of a certain flavor of visitor to #haskell

*** highlyInterested (~ijones) has joined channel #haskell <highlyInterested> hi! I'm highly interested, but have no attention span!!! <highlyInterested> Can anyone help me?!?!? * highlyInterested runs around!! *** highlyInterested (~ijones) has quit: Client Quit

-- Benjamin L. Russell

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:

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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.

-- Benjamin L. Russell

On 2008.07.30 01:09:47 -0700, Jason Dusek scribbled 0.2K characters:

<shapr> for example: "head (filter (\x -> x > 5) [1..])" <shapr> in a strict language, you can't easily play with infinite lists <dark> In a strict language, you would write that as "6" :)

-- _jsn

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