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When I learn that other language communities spend time on things like “calling functions without parentheses”

When I see a new Lisp with Clojure-inspired syntax or operator names

When I'm studying a topic that's way out of my league

When I'm being propagandized by an FP weenie

When I try to find out something about Urbit

When a new language has macros

When somebody says a PL must have "functional aspects" for writing "real apps" today

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When somebody offers me promises as a replacement for callbacks

When I see a post about programming in purely async-IO environments

When a coworker informs me that he's switching the build process to yet another Turing-complete JVM-based build tool

When somebody says they don't use a debugger since they started writing tests

Submitted by James Borden

Simon Peyton-Jones adding the IO Monad to Haskell

Submitted by Alvaro Videla.

When somebody tries to add a type system to an existing language

When I look at a PL's implementation

When my new PL can run code from an advanced paper I like

When I'm working on a new PL (most of the time)

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