On: Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit

[gvb]

On the "truth is stranger than fiction" front, I got a good chuckle from the monads-in-Perl link http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=620692:

"Anyway, I think it would be worth doing, if it could be expressed readably, but I was not able to figure out a way to do that."

There is some deep irony in monads in Perl not being readable enough for Perl.

[JoachimSchipper → gvb]

Actually, the "modern Perl" people are promoting a Perl style where your program contains more letters than special characters. They seem quite influential.