This page about Haskell gives rather a good brief explanation of what functional programming is all about. (Or at least, it finally clicked for me as I was reading it--it probably helped that I've been reading about Lisp and suchlike a lot lately). _
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08:30:18 PM, Tuesday 17 August 2004

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Playing around with AppleScript and Python this afternoon, I wrote a little script that will post to my blog a playlist of the songs I listened to on the way to work in the morning. It's kinda spiffy. For now I'll just say this: the most disturbing thing about "The Curse of Millhaven" is how much fun it is to sing along with.

• "There is a Light", Nick Cave
• "Head On", Pixies
• "Annie Waits", Ben Folds
• "Everybody Knows", Leonard Cohen
• "Away, Thou shalt not love me", Miranda Sex Garden
• "Mexican God", Robyn Hitchcock
• "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off", The Magnetic Fields
• "Cold Light", Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• "I Don't Believe You", The Magnetic Fields
• "Redemption Song", Bob Marley
• "How Soon Is Now", The Smiths
• "The Curse Of Millhaven", Nick Cave
• "The Things We Did And Didn't Do", The Magnetic Fields
• "Hello City (Live)", Barenaked Ladies
• "Tame", Pixies
• "I Don't Love Anyone", Belle and Sebastian
• "All Along The Watchtower", Jimi Hendrix
• "I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms", Modern Lovers

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