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Whenever I see Haskell stuff, Steve Yegge's famous 2010 blog post instantly comes to mind:

"Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit"

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...

And he got it completely wrong, as more and more Haskell features end up in industrial programming languages. Oracle's Java architect even publically stated he was influenced by Haskell.

It's a classic and Steve Yegge hasn't been nice to Haskell with that one. As a Java programmer I used to love an even older blog making fun of Java and its ecosystem called, IIRC, "The bile blog". It was trashy, mean, using lots of swear words and it was really good.

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