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Littlebigo

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    Comment #28477463

    Freedom to not have any vacations for years, freedom to not get medical aid, freedom to get fired over Twitter on a whim, freedom to get shot by the police, freedom to be subject t…

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    Comment #28477410

    I absolutely agree, I was just adding the explanation for anyone unfamiliar with the syntax.

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    Comment #28477348

    Well... chances are you've made thousands of phone calls through switches running Erlang. You may have used Emacs, Discord, Facebook, Pinterest, Spotify, Font Awesome, xmonad or vi…

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    Comment #28477148

    To add, I suspect that the Haskell type notation is not intuitive to people not familiar with it. For anyone wondering, (a -> b) -> f a -> f b means "A function taking a function f…

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    Comment #28477078

    The article is likely aimed at intermediate-ish FP programmers, though, not people with no prior knowledge. (Although I suspect it is an example of "learning by teaching", since it…

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    Comment #28476969

    I very much agree with part of your point, especially the novice-intermediate-expert part on jargon. I generally favor wording that is as simple as possible, but no simpler . Somet…