[Haskell-cafe] Health effects

[Anton van Straaten]

Andrew Coppin wrote:
> The other day, I sat down to eat a 2 Kg block of chocolate - one of 
> those ones that's divided into lots of little squares. I proceeded to 
> recursively subdivide it into smaller and smaller blocks, and then eat 
> the individual squares in depth-first order. It was only after getting 
> through 16 of the things that I stopped to notice that the whole bar 
> just happens to have an exact power of two squares on it.
> 
> And it was some time after *that* when I thought to myself "...woah, 
> maybe do too much Haskell?" o_O
> 
> Seriously, who recursively subdivides their food? I think I have 
> something wrong with me...

You're not alone:

   http://xkcd.com/245/