[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 111 - March 28, 2009

Lennart Augustsson lennart at augustsson.net
Sat Mar 28 19:39:59 EDT 2009


The quote has been around since at least the early 80s, but I don't
know who it's from.

2009/3/28 Krzysztof Skrzętnicki <gtener at gmail.com>:
> This paper from 1994:
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.36.5611
> begins point 1.1 with exactly that sentence. It doesn't seem to be
> quoted there, so one can assume this is the original source of that
> sentence. I'm not sure dough.
>
> Regards
>
> Christopher Skrzętnicki
>
> 2009/3/28 Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net>:
>>> conal: Recursion is the goto of functional programming
>>
>> BTW, I certainly did not mean to take credit for this wonderful quote.  I
>> don't know the origin.  I first heard it from Erik Meijer.
>>
>>   - Conal
>>
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