[Haskell-cafe] Haskell as a religion

Luke Palmer lrpalmer at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 17:29:51 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Jonathan Cast <jonathanccast at fastmail.fm>wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:38 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > Don Stewart wrote:
> > > I think of Haskell more as a revolutionary movement
> >
> > LOL! Longest revolution EVER, eh?
>
> No.
>
> Das Kapital publication 1867.
> Russian Revolution 1917.


At the extreme, one could argue Church's 1936 publication about lambda
calculus was our foundation, and since our revolution really hasn't happened
yet, we would be winning.

But by that argument, the Buddhist revolution is beating us by quite a bit.

*dreams of a violent Buddhist revolution*

Luke
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