A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

by ciderpunx • 13 years ago

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ciderpunx• 13 years ago

Heh:

Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

vezzy-fnord• 13 years ago

Still a good read a few years later.

GFischer2• 13 years ago

Indeed, somebody could add (2009) to the post?

Also, I have .uk blocked, I could read it at:

a3poify2• 13 years ago

Sorry if this is a bit personal, but why do you have .uk blocked?

nullspace• 13 years ago

Heh, the LISP bullet is the only one with footnotes. Very subtle :)

borkabrak• 13 years ago

Yeah, I took that to be a dig a Paul Graham, whose early essays all seemed to have unlinked footnotes.

raverbashing• 13 years ago

This gets reposted every now and then

But it's still funny every time

aidenn0• 13 years ago

This is a blogpost I have bookmarked and go back to read several times a year. It's the only blog post I have ever done that for.

dminor• 13 years ago

Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.

Ok, that's pretty brilliant :)

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