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The Haskell Alphabet (upenn.edu)
32 points by dons on Sept 18, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



Heh. Another programming-language ABC I put together about a decade ago: http://wry.me/~darius/writings/abecedarius.html


Hey it's Darius! :-)

Younglings, gather around this man and help yourself to his stash. He knows how to have a good time:

http://wry.me/~darius/

I can spend hours on that site and always be delighted.

(totally off-topic, I know, but you don't need an occasion to appreciate the awesome! :-)


Aw, shucks, I'm flattered and pleased you liked it. I have to warn that all of that code has been unmaintained for years...


unmaintained code (n): code that isn't in my editor now.

:-)


The Y and Z entries are nice.


Oh joy, the Haskell propoganda machine has made it to Hacker News.


Considering that don has been a member here for three years, and you for less than 100 days, maybe it's more accurate to say that the Haskell haters finally made it...?


Well, I've been around for longer than that, but your point stands. I don't hate Haskell in the least and often enjoy "technology X in Haskell" articles. I now notice that dons was even the submitter of some articles I enjoyed.

This particular submission I found irritating, though. The target audience would seem to be either someone deeply integrated into the Haskell community who might find this sort of thing cute or anyone with Haskell experience who is learning his alphabet. I notice this kind of article on reddit/r/programming, but don't usually notice it on teh front page here. Thus my comment.


> The target audience would seem to be either someone deeply integrated into the Haskell community who might find this sort of thing cute or anyone with Haskell experience who is learning his alphabet.

Haha. Probably true :)




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