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by eru 5547 days ago
Actually, most of the techniques presented there do have some use cases in real code.

Calculating factorials is not among them, though.

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  > Actually, most of the techniques presented there do have
  > some use cases in real code.
Really?

Even the sane-looking entries ("Freshman" through "Another senior") are going to have performance problems. "Yet another senior" through "Combinatory" have some minor applications to real-world code, but none of them are demonstrated here. "List-encoding" and onward degenerate into type-class wanking and absurdity -- they don't belong anywhere near a compiler.