[coders] stretch languages (was: Re: [SLUG] Re: Snakes and Rubies?)

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>Personally, I think the general OSDC-style evening would probably be best --
>especially if we can get some interesting talks on niche languages (or the
>term I heard today -- "stretch languages"[1]) to get people interested in
>what else is out there.
>
>- Matt
>
>[1] http://osteele.com/archives/2006/02/stretch-languages

This is awesome:

"""
Reading Haskell is like reading poetry (I’m very slow at it, and I can’t
skim because the new-concept density is very high), and writing Haskell is
like writing poetry (something else that takes me forever). As opposed to
Python and Ruby, which are more prosaic, and Enterprise Java, which is more
like a tax form.
"""