[Haskell-cafe] Re: (A little humour)

[Benjamin L.Russell]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:40:49 -0400, "Andrew Wagner"
<wagner.andrew at gmail.com> wrote:

>Brilliant. This made my day. I must admit, I looked briefly at the
>paper after I saw the link, yawned, and closed it. Then I saw Andrew's
>comment, skimmed the paper, becoming more and more convinced that it
>was a joke, saw the last line, and then had to go back and read the
>whole thing again. Just awesome.

You didn't even need to read the last line.  On page 6 of that paper:

>A preprocessor that implements the facility for any current C++ implementation can be freely
>downloaded from http://www.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace.html.

Click on that link and tell me what you see.

Incidentally, this is just typical Bjarne Stroustrup humor.  It
reminds me of "An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup" (see
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html).
Read that interview and tell me what you think.

-- Benjamin L. Russell