I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.
Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading
material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could
seriously stomach, decide you should educate yourself while "on the
job". :-)
So you decide
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.
>
> Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading
> material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could
> seriously stomach, decide you
On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:17 , Dougal Stanton wrote:
Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading
material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could
seriously stomach, decide you should educate yourself while "on the
job". :-)
Sounds to me like you want a wate
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 10:17:53 Dougal Stanton wrote:
> I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.
>
> Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading
> material. And having read all the Dilbert and Garfield you could
> seriously stomach, decide y
>
> So you decide to print up some "one-liner" style programs into a
> little booklet. Something between credit-card and postcard sized, with
> a neat but mind-bending program on it. Don Stewart occasionally swoops
> in with some fixpoint malarkey to defuse heated discussions. I mean
> that kind of
On 14/08/07, Brent Yorgey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clearly, we need to actually put together such a book! I'm imagining
> something where you have two mostly blank facing pages, with the code by
> itself in the middle of the right page; then the next 2-4 pages devoted to a
> short discussion o
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 14/08/07, Brent Yorgey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Clearly, we need to actually put together such a book! I'm imagining
> > something where you have two mostly blank facing pages, with the code by
> > itself in the middle of the right
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:22 +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.
> Maybe:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_pape
On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance.
One of my favourite examples is:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/hinze99functional.html
Anyone who studies binomial heaps is struck by the similarity to
binary arithmetic. W
