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Of course Stallman is right... but unable to stop it...

thanks alice!

"We start our discussion with a brief look at what Haskell is and how a pure functional language is different from non-pure languages. We then look at the basic building blocks and the philosophy of the language, discussing concepts such as the lambda calculus, closures, currying, immutability, lazy evaluation, memoization, and the role of data types in functional languages. A significant part of the discussion is then spent on the management of side effects in a pure language - in other words, the importance of monads. We conclude the episode with a look at Haskell's importance and community today."

Interview with Linus Torvalds.

I'm a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don't want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be "overly technical".

"'I think that innovation' is a four-letter word in the industry. It should never be used in polite company. It's become a PR thing to sell new versions with."

Es ist etwas faul bei den Videos im Internet, erklärte Jesse Patel von der Participatory Culture Foundation auf der re:publica 2008. Worin sich das von seiner Stiftung entwickelte System namens Miro von anderen wie iTunes und YouTube