[Haskell-cafe] about Haskell code written to be "too smart"

[Benja Fallenstein]

2009/3/24 Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com>:
>> This strategy is doomed to failure, unfortunately.
>
> So it is the good strategy, because Haskell's slogan is "avoid success at
> all cost" :-)


IN THE YEAR 1987, WAR WAS BEGINNING

BIG, IMPERATIVE SOFTWARE BEHEMOTHS CLASHED IN A STATE OF IMPURITY

UNDER THE SHADOW OF FEAR AND DOUBT, COLONY BY COLONY FELL INTO TYPELESS ANARCHY

WHOLE PLANETS WERE SCROUNGED BY TERRIBLE SEGFAULTS

THE HUNGER FOR A NEW PARADIGM WAS GNAWING AT THE ROOTS OF THE CIVILIZED UNIVERSE


MEANWHILE, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY, A SMALL GROUP OF LAZY FUNCTIONAL
PROGRAMMERS CREATED A LANGUAGE

IT WAS OUR LAST, BEST HOPE TO AVOID SUCCESS AT ALL COST...

IT FAILED


IT EVOLVED


THERE ARE 8,581 IMPLEMENTATIONS SUPPORTING 935,842,712 EXTENSIONS

THEY LOOK AND FEEL ... FUNCTIONAL

SOME ARE PROGRAMMED TO THINK THAT THEY AREN'T IMPERATIVE AT ALL

AT LEAST ONE IS ACTUALLY USED


ONCE, IT HAD BEEN OUR LAST, BEST HOPE TO AVOID SUCCESS

IN THE YEAR 2009, IT BECAME SOMETHING GREATER:

OUR LAST, BEST HOPE FOR BLASTING THE INFERIOR LANGUAGES OUT OF THE SKY
(WITH LAZY CLASS)


YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAP YOUR BIND