I think it's a bit of word play. 苺 (strawberry) and 一語 (one word) are both read "Ichigo".

One thing I hate about F# and SQL is that they use <> as a "not equals" operator. In Haskell, <> is the binary operator of any Semigroup instance.

Haskell:

    import Data.IORef
    
    main :: IO ()
    main = do
      x <- newIORef (0 :: Int)
      writeIORef x 5
      y <- readIORef x
      print y

I'd recommend using ghcup to install Haskell nowadays. (https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/) It makes it easy to install and switch versions of the compiler, language server, and build tools.

Haskell's ecosystem went such a long way in, I d say,last 5 years? Or maybe it's just me who became more proficient at following instructions? I distinctly remember not being able to setup my working environment for Haskell sometime before 2018 and then I tried it again couple of months ago, and all well smoothly

Yes, it has improved a great deal, and ghcup has been an important aspect of that improvement.

Not true. I bought a new Icoca recently.

> still way too imperative and not as functional to be called a true ML

As a Haskell fanboy, this is how I feel about Ocaml and F#.

What are your thoughts on Idris and other Haskell derivatives? As well as the HVM and its Lisp-like Haskell-like combo of a language [0]?

[0] https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/hvm

The same principle applies to programming. Functions that know less about their arguments are more generally applicable.

How do illegal immigrants become voters?

If they aren't voters that is something that is a problem that needs to be fixed. Illegal migrants make up something like 3% of the US population. It isn't fair for 3% of the resident population to be denied a right to vote; it'll become a serious social issue.

How would you like it if I break into your house and start living with you against your will, and then boss you around deciding what we eat for dinner, how our budget (your salary) should be spent, and so on?

If I'm not going to kick you out, you would get a say in dinner, the budget and so on. What alternative can you see? You're in the house. We live together. Best to get along.

Either the US goes genocidal and purge 3% of their population or they all get along. Getting along seems like the good option to me!

They automatically register elegible voters, not everyone that obtains a driver's license.

How do they know which voters are eligible and which aren't?

Hurfa durfa.

Your terms of surrender regarding this argument have been accepted.

You call Papa Smurfa?!

Go ahead and produce evidence that votes were cast by ineligible people in California.

Even better if it's a significant enough number to indicate a systemic problem with the registration system.

"Top engineers" aren't the tech workers that are getting laid off.

Ok, fair enough, "top" has been redefined in our field. PhD research scientists with decades of software dev experience are going cheap. It might not be the exact candidate you want, but they're not really mediocre. If it was any other field, decades of experience and a PhD would be considered a "top" player.

I have a strong suspicion that Christopher Williams invented some of these words.

I feel like this could be a case study of some sort regarding rate limiting and/or moderation on crowdsourcing information on the internet.