# Blog post: the elegant attack

**URL:** <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/blog-post-the-elegant-attack/2644>\
**Category:** Links\
**Created:** [June 12, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/blog-post-the-elegant-attack/2644 "2021-06-12T05:56:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![tonyday567](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/tonyday567/32/1073_2.png) [@tonyday567](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/tonyday567)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/blog-post-the-elegant-attack/2644/1 "2021-06-12T05:56:08Z")

</div>

> **[Haskell and the elegant attack.](https://tonyday567.github.io/posts/avoid/)**
>
> Welcome back to the Happy Haskell HAckers Tour1. As we approach our next stop, let me firstly apologise for the recent detours. Our bus driver, Yoneda, mixed up the maps and started following the GHC After Dark2 script. But now we’re back on track,...

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yakushima](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/yakushima/32/1561_2.png) [@Yakushima](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Yakushima)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/blog-post-the-elegant-attack/2644/2 "2021-06-14T03:12:24Z")

</div>

“I won’t name names, but I understand that, for specific cultures, satire is seen as equivalent to sarcasm.”

There’s worse. In some cultures, “irony” and “sarcasm” use the same word. For example, Japanese “hiniku” (lit. “tear flesh”, etymologically parallel to “sarcasm”), though context often disambiguates.

I’m happy to learn on tour that a Cabal Hell does still exist, and not just for newbies like me, and that in the worst case, you’re not allowed to say, “Houston, we have a problem”, at least when you’re so far below Houston that you’re down where hellfire (or maybe fracking sludge) is licking at your heels. Thank Yoneda for me.

[I’m trying to put the fun back in function](https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?title=GADTs_for_dummies&action=history), even as a Haskell newbie, and I have wild dreams of making Haskell fun for newbies in academia ([specifically in lexical semantics](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GIDWMbFBAaOZc-jxOu1Majt6UNzCpg4vxMGeydb421M/edit).) Thank you for making my day.