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"In my eyes this is not a technical shortcoming of the language (or
compiler), but rather a psychological inadequacy of human beings."
- Markus Mottl, OCaml hacker, replying with aplomb to a
comp.lang.functional post suggesting that Hindley-Milner type
inference was was sometimes hard for first year students to
comprehend.
[Another reason for qotd to hate all things computing -- sociopathic
geeks. -ed.]
Submitted by: Julian Assange
Jul. 22, 2000
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