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I honestly expected the article to start like

Smalltalk, Haskell, and Lisp

...walk into a bar.

Smalltalk: “Bartender, please send an instance of Martini to me - selector withOlive: set to true.”

Haskell: “I’ll take beer >>= chill, but only if it’s defined for all inputs and returns IO ().”

Lisp: “(drink ’(ale (temperature cold))) .”

The bartender mutters, “Great ... an object, a functor, and a list.”

Then a janitor walks by sweeping the closures that they left.






Then a FORTH person walks into the same bar...

"cold temperature ale drink"

to which the bartender replies "go you here". The janitor smiles as no sweeping required on a clean stack.


A C guy asks for a beer and gets a beer, the second line of the liquor shelf and the contents of the garbage can before they are thrown out of the bar.

Alternatively:

to which the bartender replies "ok"


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After drinking the ale, the FORTH person says "bye".




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