« Touring the U. of Minnesota's Sherlock Holmes collection | Main | 2010 resolutions »

Quote of the day: LWN commenter 'ncm'

A wanklage is most typically a language for which there is more enthusiasm in discussions of how it may be implemented than in what new programs and libraries can be written in it. (Well-known wanklages include Lisp and Haskell.) Enthusiasts of wanklages are frequently more interested in how cool various features are than in how useful they may be in writing real programs. Currying is one such feature. Another mark of a wanklage is long discussions of how to overcome its built-in impediments to solving simple problems. Use "wanklage" in a sentence today.

-- commenter 'ncm' on Linux Weekly News

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on January 15, 2010 9:39 AM.

The previous post in this blog was Touring the U. of Minnesota's Sherlock Holmes collection.

The next post in this blog is 2010 resolutions.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Powered by
Movable Type 3.31