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When People Encounter Lisp Syntax For The First Time
Programming
6 days ago 128.1K views 0 shares
When People Encounter Lisp Syntax For The First Time
The difference between normal function notation and Lisp's parentheses-everywhere approach is truly office-disrupting material! Top panel: Regular mathematical notation f(x) is perfectly acceptable workplace banter. Bottom panel: Switch to Lisp's (f x) prefix notation and suddenly you're getting reported to HR faster than an unhandled exception. The real tragedy? The poor soul probably just wanted to share their excitement about discovering a language where everything is a list and parentheses are more common than semicolons in JavaScript.

Conditional Baptism: When God Requires Type Safety
Programming Algorithms
1 month ago 137.0K views 2 shares
Conditional Baptism: When God Requires Type Safety
When functional programming meets religion, you get this masterpiece. Some genius actually implemented conditional baptism in Haskell, complete with type signatures and the Maybe monad to handle the existential uncertainty of your soul's salvation status. The function returns Nothing if you're already baptized (no double-dipping in holy water), and wraps you in a Just if you get the spiritual upgrade. Because apparently, even divine grace needs proper type checking. Next PR: implementing confession as a monadic error handler.

Conditional Baptism
Programming Algorithms
1 month ago 145.5K views 0 shares
Conditional Baptism
Salvation through functional programming! The creator of this masterpiece has blessed us with the holiest of conditional statements—baptism implemented in Haskell. The function returns Maybe Person because even divine intervention respects type safety. If you're already baptized? Return Nothing . Otherwise, you get Just (markBaptized p) . The conditionalBaptize function even uses monadic composition with maybe to handle the uncertainty of salvation. Next time your code needs saving, remember that even spiritual transformations can be expressed as pure functions with no side effects—except eternal life, of course.

Totally Valid F Sharp Name
Programming Csharp Debugging
1 month ago 176.7K views 0 shares
Totally Valid F Sharp Name
The devil's promise vs. F# reality. Sure, your kid will use "meaningful variable names"—right up until they discover functional programming. Then it's single-letter variables and ASCII art demons summoned directly into your codebase. Nothing says "senior developer" like code that requires an exorcist to debug. That ASCII devil is just the compiler's way of saying "I understand this perfectly, but good luck to the next poor soul who inherits this repo."

I've Seen Them Do It
Programming
1 month ago 143.7K views 0 shares
I've Seen Them Do It
The ultimate functional programming dad joke has arrived! In OOP, we obsess over objects, but functional programmers just smugly call them "side effects" and try to avoid them like that one relative at Thanksgiving dinner. The punchline works on multiple levels because side effects in functional programming are operations that modify state outside their scope—exactly what pure functional programming tries to eliminate. It's like watching someone build an elaborate sandcastle while promising not to touch the sand. Whoever made this meme definitely mutated some global variables in their day.

Now You Know
Programming Typescript Javascript
1 month ago 195.9K views 0 shares
Now You Know
When someone asks if you know any programming paradigm beyond OOP, and your brain immediately goes to "FU"... which conveniently stands for "Functional Programming." The perfect accidental programmer comeback! After 15 years of watching junior devs make everything an object, I've learned that sometimes the best answer to "how should we architect this?" is indeed just "FU." Pure functions, no side effects, and immutability - it's like telling your stateful code to take a hike.

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Beyond Basic Addition
Python Algorithms Programming Debugging
1 month ago 172.7K views 0 shares
Beyond Basic Addition
That smug face when you implement addition using recursion instead of the + operator because regular math is for peasants. Sure, it'll crash with a stack overflow on large numbers, but that's a problem for future you after your code review. Bonus points for making the function signature look deceptively simple while hiding your algorithmic flexing inside.

Organ Subroutines
Programming Debugging Testing
3 months ago 148.4K views 0 shares
Organ Subroutines
Just like my code, I present a clean interface to the world while hiding the absolute chaos underneath. My organs might claim to be "functional" adults, but peek inside and you'll find a jumbled mess of objects with no documentation and questionable inheritance patterns. The cat's face is basically my expression when someone asks if my codebase follows SOLID principles.

The Six Horsemen Of Programming Apocalypse
Python Javascript Programming Debugging
3 months ago 158.9K views 0 shares
The Six Horsemen Of Programming Apocalypse
This multi-panel SpongeBob meme is a chaotic tour through programming's most cursed features and debates! First panel: Python's elif keyword getting absolutely roasted. It's literally just "else if" with two characters saved, yet Python devs will defend it with religious fervor. Second panel: SpongeBob defining truth as a random coin flip ( #define true (rand() % 2) ) - the kind of chaotic evil code that would make senior engineers wake up screaming. The functional programming panel with that monads explanation is pure chef's kiss. Nobody understands monads, but everyone pretends to. Then we've got the horrors of datetime libraries (universally painful), JavaScript's cursed array comparison ( array[i] == i[array] evaluating to true because JS type coercion is from the ninth circle of hell), and finally JS itself being the punchline. It's basically "Things That Make Developers Question Their Career Choices: The Meme".

The Lisp Enlightenment Trap
Programming Algorithms Math
3 months ago 104.8K views 0 shares
The Lisp Enlightenment Trap
The graph perfectly illustrates the psychological journey of a Lisp programmer who's almost reached enlightenment but remains eternally trapped just below it. Lisp, with its notorious parentheses-heavy syntax ((((like this)))) and powerful functional programming capabilities, creates this weird phenomenon where developers start thinking they're unlocking the secrets of computer science itself. The more time you spend with Lisp, the closer you feel to some grand epiphany—like you're about to crack the cosmic code of programming—but that final breakthrough remains just out of reach. Meanwhile, you're spouting nonsense about understanding the universe while writing code that looks like a keyboard sneezed parentheses everywhere. It's the programming equivalent of climbing Everest, getting 10 feet from the summit, and deciding to set up a philosophy club instead of finishing the climb.

Meme Proudly Presented To You By The Functional Programming Gang
Java Programming
4 months ago 150.6K views 0 shares
Meme Proudly Presented To You By The Functional Programming Gang
A brave stick figure stands on a cliff, boldly proclaiming "JAVA SUCKS" to a crowd of pitchfork-wielding Java developers who seem mildly interested. When pressed for reasoning, our hero doubles down with "BECAUSE OOP SUCKS," instantly transforming the crowd into an angry mob. It's the programming equivalent of walking into a sports bar and announcing that the home team is garbage. Functional programmers sitting at home: "I taught him that move."

Sorry Mom, I'm Dating My JSON Parser
Programming Algorithms
4 months ago 138.6K views 0 shares
Sorry Mom, I'm Dating My JSON Parser
Mom's text arrives just as our hero is deep in the functional programming rabbit hole, writing a JSON parser in Haskell with only 111 lines of code. Dating? Relationships? Sorry Mom, I'm currently in a committed relationship with monads and type safety. The irony is perfect - while Mom hopes for grandchildren, this developer is giving birth to elegant parsing algorithms instead. Who needs romance when you can spend your evenings with curried functions that never complain about your coding habits?