You look at the clock. It’s 2245: Another 15 minutes coding before calling it a night.

You’re currently reading some notes on an obscure language called Lisp/Haskell/Erlang/Prolog (delete as appropriate).  Many times you’ve heard colleagues spurn these languages as being ‘too obtuse’ or ‘impractical’ – in short, they just don’t have any application in the real world

What do they know, right?

As you dig deeper into the language you see things that make sense- More elegant syntax, trivial parallelism, dynamic typing, functional programming.  If only this language were given a chance it could be great.  Each lesson learned leads to a new branch of experimentation fueled by a mixture of Pepsi and Doritos.

You look at the clock…

It’s 0100.