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Someone once quipped about a Haskell library that "You know it's a good library when just reading the manual removes the problem it solves from your life forever." I feel the same way about this article. That's a compliment, in case you were wondering.
The one criticism I would make is that it's long, and I think you could spread this to other sites and enlighten a lot of people if you wrote an abridged version and perhaps illustrated it with silly pictures of cats.
Thank you very much. That's exactly the feeling I hoped people would have if this dissolved the question and it's great to hear.
I can't think of how to make this shorter without removing content (especially since this is already pitched at an advanced audience - anything short of LW and I'd have to explain status quo biases, preference reversal tests, and actually justify determinism).
I can, however, give you an lolcat if you want one.
I ran a Google search for the line you quoted, but no results; I'd be interested to know what the original author meant by it, I don't suppose you have any links handy?
It was on a wiki page that was lost in a shuffle years ago. HOWEVER! I managed to track down a copy of the page, and hosted it myself. Here's the one I was paraphrasing:
It's a pretty funny quotes page, if you like Haskell. And I wouldn't feel right if I didn't include my favorite thing from that page, concerning the proper indentation of C code:
Having fought far too many segfaults, and been irritated by the lack of common data structures in libc, I can only agree.
Thank you for this.
Thanks! excellent reading.