Humor

Who says functional programmers never have any fun? Here's some of the hoaxes and other funny stuff that's passed over the Haskell mailing list over the years.

• If Haskell were a working girl
• Microsoft takes over Haskell
• The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (can you write a factorial function?)
• Haskell saves lives!
• An ode to Haskell
• Try some Haskell today!
• Functional porn
• Dr. Seuss builds a parser
• Limericks
• The latest Hugs release?
• Haskell fingers Enron
• Haskells 1984 parallelisms
• How to keep an imperative programmer busy for hours
• URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED!
• Need help with your homework?
• Need help performing?
• Haskell is slow!
• Monads explained by the Catholic Church
• Committee Advocating The Superstitious Use of Parentheses
• The Beta Release of Glasgow Haskell (and explanation)
• The Haskerl Extension to Haskell
• HaskellWiki's QuotesPage. E.g. a quotation from <autrijus>:
  • Perl: "Easy things are easy, hard things are possible"
  • Haskell: "Hard things are easy, the impossible just happened"
• Lambdabot's quotes archive.
• Haskell cosmetics, pure and good for you
• Haskell No Operation
• Almost Haskell
• There's a monster in my Haskell!
• What does IO look like?, or how why threading the real world is tricky.
• King IO (freely adapted from Goethe)
• Think of a monad ...
• The warm, fuzzy thing transformer
• The Haskell Learning Curve
• Lambdacats, inspired by the lolcat phenomenon.
• The benefits of Haskell, via the Socratic method
• Goldilocks