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"In Haskell, you have to start in the correct monad if you plan on doing any I/O (and you do). Ocaml's "implicit" monad is the same monad the overwhelming majority of programs live in: the imperative monad with exceptions."

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"Python is growing, but not towards Lisp. As Python becomes more popular, I expect advocates of other languages will try to claim it as a descendant of theirs"

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"LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang ... is a lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler. Code produced with it is compatible with
'normal' Erlang code."

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Erlang as an Application System: "The critical aspect of the Erlang/OTP that makes is a suitable candidate to be an Application System turns out to be exactly the same as the key aspect of Operating Systems: concurrency is provided by processes"

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"we have no need for dynamic higher-order programming. All we need is static higher-order programming. In fact, "static higher-order programming" has another name.... In Lisp and its many relatives, "static higher-order programs" are called macros."

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"We can no longer look upon [Scheme] macros as `simple rewrites'. We are starting to write macros whose purpose is to control the actions of the macro processing engine.... A [Scheme] macro is a compiler."

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"I view the Y-Combinator as a combination of two ideas: Self application, and handling the recursion in a different function from the one that does the computation."

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"Project LambdaCan [...] implements a reducer (interpreter) for the Lambda Calculus [...] in a can that you can connect to your PC using a USB cable. [...] LambdaCan is essentially an Arduino Diecimila board mounted in a cough drop can using epoxy putty"

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"Using return and bind we have achieved our goal of wrapping objects and freely manipulating wrapped objects while keeping them wrapped [...]. And that, really, sums up what a Haskell monad is all about."

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"Many programming languages make a distinction between expressions and commands [...]. Haskell is no different [...]. The IO monad is just a device to help make this distinction. And that's the last time I'll mention the word 'monad' for a while."

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"In Javaland, by King Java's royal decree, Verbs are owned by Nouns. [...] Verbs in Javaland are responsible for all the work, but as they are held in contempt by all, no Verb is ever permitted to wander about freely."

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«it is, when you pause to think about it, strange that when a programmer asks you how you are, the proper response is "Dynamic, thanks!" if you are feeling well and "Kinda static today..." if you are ill»

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"Over the last weekend I wanted to have a go at porting Oliver Steele's string lambda into Erlang. And here is the result"

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"We will be partnering with Don Syme and others in Microsoft Research to fully integrate the F# language into Visual Studio and continue innovating and evolving F#. In my mind, F# is another first-class programming language on the CLR."

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"The big difference is that the code changes I made are substantially safer than running a program and having it silently hang the system. [...] Really, this is what those cycle-counting programmers from 1985 dreamed of."

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List and explanation of 25 features that make Common Lisp uniquely powerful, including: Rich & exact arithmetic, Generalized references, Multiple values, Macros, Nonlocal control transfer, Functional functions, Multiple dispatch, Programmable parser.

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