Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Haskell News Quotes

Some quotes from the quote of the week on #haskell, posted on Contemplating Code.

hpc: and when you want to get really ridiculous, agda has universe polymorphism, which is when you don't know how high up the tower of turtles you have managed to climb
RaptorRarr: Analogy puzzles are to intelligence as __________ is to elephants
[djahandarie] Group projects are stupid [shachaf] Try a semigroup project sometime. You need to lose your identity.
heatsink: Maybe, (), and Bool go to the Lone Star Bar. The bouncer stops Maybe and says, "we don't serve your kind here."
Jafet: Can oleg create a term so complicated that even he could not type-check it?
elliott: i'm here to prove theorems and compile code and I'm all out of code
kmc: my algorithm is O(1), but the constant factor grows quadratically as the problem size increases
luqui: Haskell is a DSL for writing monad tutorials.
spoolio: Haskell programmers know the cost of nothing, the type of everything, and might know the value of a few things later.
James Cook: I think Haskell questions on SO tend to the opposite extreme; no matter how poorly thought-out the question, the Haskell community will descend on it like a swarm of helpful piranhas.
djahandarie: Category theorists are morphisms for turning cofree theorems into free theorems.
monochrom: the road to haskell is paved with good abstractions
ddarius: Attempting to join #not-not-math sent me to #math. Freakin' Boole.
monochrom: @let germanize = concat . words

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