[Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] Loss of humour

[dermiste]

The sixth quote :

--- Michael Schuerig <schuerig at acm.org> wrote:
 > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
 > wrote:
 > > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
 > and
 > > you could only master *one* language as your
 > weapon of
 > > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
 >
 > Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
 > seem to be somewhat
 > conservative and CL beautifully captures the
 > anachronistic elegance and
 > power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
 > generations might choose
 > more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
 > among the contenders.

http://www.xkcd.com/297/

xD

I love this guy



On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:45:56 +0100,
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>
>> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC
>> quotes. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished. I can't remember where
>> on earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it
>> down. (In particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a
>> typical Haskell newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well
>> it amused *me* anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070609061216/http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/QuotesPage
>
> j.
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