ExpanDrive

James Iry posted a really amusing “history” of programming languages over on his blog, One Div Zero. I laughed till I cried. He bills it as “mostly wrong,” but he’s not far from the truth.

Just for a taste, here’s one of my favourite quotes from the History

Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that “a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the problem”

Good times