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So I just started my Open University course on Functional Programming (actually not my first time using a functional language, I looked at some F# about two years ago, but only a little little  ).
The course uses Haskell and the OU provided me with the book Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton[^].
One of my first throughts when starting: "No wonder functional programming is consise... C# could be a lot more consise too if every function and variable was abbreviated to one to three letters only!"
For example, there's the function 'fst'. What is fst? Had I named my function fst in C# it probably would've been Hall of Shame material.
fst is First and takes the first value of a tuple with two values.
Some function definitions:
fst :: (a, b) -> a
head :: [a] -> a
take :: Int -> [a] -> [a]
zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(a, b)] Riiiiiiiiight...
That's not to say I'm lookinf forward to learning more about Haskell and functional programming in general
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
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My favourite functions are words and unwords.
Not only are they stupid names for functions, they're awfully specific functions that have no business being built-in.
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They aren't even discussed in my course, so I had to look them up (those names aren't very intuitive indeed).
From Hoogle: words breaks a string up into a list of words, which were delimited by white space.
Sounds like myString.Split(' ');
And unwords does the opposite... Nice name for creating one string from a list of strings 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I hate it.
And the widespread adoption of the approach in C# make me cringle. Why write a simple loop when you can litter the code with a load of Funcs in some bloody great 'fluent' expression all over the place. For me, it goes against the golden rule of KISS.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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If you're referring to LINQ I have to disagree. LINQ certainly made life easier for me
And when you're using LINQ to Objects you still just have a load of loops, except they're abstracted away in functions. And they're lazy evaluated, which can be good for performance.
In Haskell everything is lazy evaluated, making it possible to work with infinite lists (something that's not possible in C# I think).
Anyway, I'm willing to give it a chance (despite the weird naming conventions )
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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My programming's always been functional (usually after extensive debugging), so I'll give that one a miss.
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Wishing you a belated Happy Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day! 香港特別行政區成立紀念日[^]
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Five people are being monitored at a Hungarian hospital after the discovery of the deadly anthrax disease in samples of beef, reports say.
Mmm, illegally slaughtered cows...
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I think you meant... 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Sounds like a farm in Tiszafured might get beef with the police...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: illegally slaughtered cows
Apparently it is illegal to slaughter cow infected with anthrix in Hungary. 
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I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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Five years and 9 months, is all - 12 sexual assaults, child abuse, and fronting a child abuse charity and that's all he gets... not enough, not enough at all.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think were he's going "Tie me kangaroo down" will become a sport?
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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On hearing the verdict, Mr Harris exclaimed "Bugger me!"
To which the judge replied "Yes, they probably will."
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A couple of days in the general prison population would decrease that sentence to "life". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OriginalGriff wrote: 12 sexual assaults,
It was indecent assault.
There might not be much difference, beyond the date offenses were committed, but it does cover a very, very wide range of behaviour and I do not know what the exact circumstances were.
The media tend not to report on the actual detail of these cases, the Max Clifford one was eventually reported by a few websites and what he was up to (with women of age IIRC) was utterly, utterly deplorable, although if you read the mainstream media you would assume it was just a bit of good old fashioned light hearted groping.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thanks, still not too much detail of the accusations though.
The daughter's friend seems to be the crux of the matter, she initiated the investigation and most of the offenses were committed against her and were predatory. The others (form what I can tell) seem to be opportunistic and transitory, he just grabbed girls cos he got a cheap thrill out of it.
It will be interesting to see how many more come forward now, there were plenty more he couldn't be tried for as they were out of British jurisdiction, but there were allowed a say in court to establish behavior and pattern.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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According to the BBC he will probably serve half in prison, bit of a joke really
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HomerTheGreat wrote: According to the BBC he will probably serve half in prison, bit of a joke really
It's standard for all prisoners serving over 4 years (I think), you have to apply for release at the half way stage, you have to have been well behaved in prison, and you have to have admitted and shown remorse for the crimes. If release at half way he will remain under license an supervision until three quarters of the sentence have been served.
I assume he has British citizenship, if he was still Australian then the rules would be slightly different.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The end of a career?[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'd shave and dump the glasses if I was him...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm not happy with this one. Saville, Jacko, and Gifford were/are all creepy ****ers with predatory eyes and behaviour. Harris has none of that.
If the evidence I've seen against him were based on greater than:
a) Word-of-mouth from a not-recovering alcoholic
b) Testimony that he committed one of the acts in a place thousands of miles from where he was physically*
I would be as behind it as I was for the three monsters listed above, but it looks like Harris is the victim of criminal behaviour, here.
* I lived in Leigh Park (Ramsdale Avenue, to be precise; my dad was stationed in Portsmouth). If Harris had been at the community centre, us kids would have known about it (insert obvious joke here). It's bullsh1t; they've dun him up.
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If this is true it's awful to think he's been stitched up, by who is the obvious question and why ?
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