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ciderpunx
Heh:

> Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

vezzy-fnord
Still a good read a few years later.
GFischer
Indeed, somebody could add (2009) to the post?

Also, I have .uk blocked, I could read it at:

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

a3poify
Sorry if this is a bit personal, but why do you have .uk blocked?
GFischer
Work :) . The rules are a bit odd, I still haven't figured out why some sites are open and why some are blocked. I'm happy Hacker News is still open.
a3poify
Yeah, but the entire .uk domain system? That's really odd.
boothead
Perhaps (s)he's surfing from the pornographic portion of the internet and the UK Government blocked the information superhighway in both directions just to be sure?
nullspace
Heh, the LISP bullet is the only one with footnotes. Very subtle :)
borkabrak
Yeah, I took that to be a dig a Paul Graham, whose early essays all seemed to have unlinked footnotes.
raverbashing
This gets reposted every now and then

But it's still funny every time

aidenn0
This is a blogpost I have bookmarked and go back to read several times a year. It's the only blog post I have ever done that for.
dminor
> Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.

Ok, that's pretty brilliant :)