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To be fair, he does cover this in the conclusion at the end of this article and mentions how everything started in the original post from 2000: http://norvig.com/beal2000.html …

For one, "fold" is a foreign concept to people who were introduced to programming using an average imperative language. I understand that it's easier to comprehend if you mentally trans…

The other side of the coin is that the majority of newcomers will simply abandon the language if they can't figure out how to use the basic prelude functions within 30 minutes. Every hurdle (inst…

One issue is making the learning curve even steeper. Compare the <=7.8 signature of a simple function (which itself is not obvious to beginners) to the 7.10 one: find :: (a -> Bool) -> [a…

That's clearly not what inversionOf was saying.

Or as Bryan Cantrill put it: When you're in top, what's the top process? top! "Hey man, good news, I've found the problem! I'm the problem!! Who would've thou…

There's also dynamic generation of output by specifying a custom filter in a RAR archive that is executed during decompression: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-wit…

The latter. Very few people need precise geolocation on Mars or any other non-Earth planet. But planets are not perfect spheres (mainly due to rotation), so treating them as such introduces errors. If…

Let's be fair here, while you can detect invalid internal links in dynamic languages at runtime, the end result is basically the same for the user - a 404 or a 503 are equally bad in this case.…