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Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

Damn, I downvoted by accident. Also count on my vote for a black bar.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#44

The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

tampermonkey script:

https://gist.github.com/ultimapanzer/68f601ef9ab7f599d3ce

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#45

The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

what is a 'black bar'?

This is what the black bar looks like:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111006185350/http://news.ycombi...

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#46
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is a 'black bar'?

On HN the top orange[1] bar is sometimes changed to black when someone significant[2] to computing dies. [1] orange unless you've got enough karma to set it to some other value [2] significant to computing is not the right phrase here, sorry for clumsiness.

Perhaps just: "someone significant to the community".

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#47
post #7

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

You're comment made me think of something else I read from time to time that resonates with me when someone passes away, especially if that person has contributed greatly like Paul has:

    No man is an island entire of itself; every man 
    is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; 
    if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe 
    is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as 
    well as any manner of thy friends or of thine 
    own were; any man's death diminishes me, 
    because I am involved in mankind. 
    And therefore never send to know for whom 
    the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. 

    –John Donne
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#48
He was only 62. Bjarne Stroustrup is a couple of years older and Donald Knuth is nearing 80 and he's still productive.

I was reading this a couple days ago: http://www.macstories.net/stories/life-after-cancer-how-the-...

It makes me wonder if in the very near future wearables will help give people enough added feedback, etc so they might get a few extra years. I'm sure someone with Paul's abilities had a lot more to contribute.

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