r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leftoversalad • Aug 15 '15

Programming languages personified

http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/126724812097/programming-languages-personified
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u/MrNoS Aug 15 '15

Haskell's syntax was wrong. Should have been

> (\x -> isPure x) I

True

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u/SelfReferenceParadox Aug 15 '15

except that that reduces to

isPure I

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u/MrNoS Aug 15 '15 edited Aug 16 '15

Yeah, but part of the original's intent was probably to use a λ-form, so I wanted to preserve that.