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

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

Ok, that's pretty brilliant :)

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

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

Still a good read a few years later.

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

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

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

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

Work :) . The rules are a bit odd, I still haven't figured out why some sites are open and why some are blocked. I'm happy Hacker News is still open.

Yeah, but the entire .uk domain system? That's really odd.

Perhaps (s)he's surfing from the pornographic portion of the internet and the UK Government blocked the information superhighway in both directions just to be sure?

This gets reposted every now and then

But it's still funny every time

Heh:

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

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.

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