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by josephg 1952 days ago
Haskell programmers have delved the deepest and furthest in the mines of a certain kind of Truth. Decades under the earth gives them strange language and strange ideas - the monoid, applicators, all sorts of things.

You can follow them to their deep dark places - but they have travelled far, and finding them in their tunnels is a journey of many moons. To the Haskell programmer, us surface dwellers are all confused - missing the essential True Names of programming. Don’t despair - you can travel where you will; but know that discovering the hidden truths will humble and age the best of us. Why? I know not. Perhaps realising we’re small and stupid is the cost of staring into the abyss of Math.

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The acolytes of laziness dug too eagerly and too deep.