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		pitaj on May 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over t... Why the word "defect" though? There must be other words that are less controversial. Maybe "abnormalities" or "specialities"?

tabtab on May 22, 2018 | [–]

How about "possess an outlier brain design" among the human or even general IT population.

greenhatman on May 21, 2018 | | [–]

Because less controversial words would be less funny.

lgas on May 21, 2018 | | [–]

"Interests"? "Appreciations"? "Proclivities"? "Personalities"?

Y_Y on May 20, 2018 | [–]

But defects are what make diamonds have colours![0] I hope you didn't interpret that phrase as an attack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_defects_in_di...

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