«And I imagined my soon-to-be-written scheme implementation as a great combine harvester in an ocean of impurity, and as I asked for my meal I could feel the effects of Haskell’s static typing cleansing their bodies away from me as the harvester ran over them, and in a flurry of parentheses, blood, bone, and abstract passion, only I, the functionally pure, as a linked list of monadic bodily and spiritual functions soon to be iterated and executed in parallel, the single great data structure of the world, would be impervious to the sharp blades of compile-time cleansing, and I would finally be left alone to study whatever abstract mathematical problem that crossed my path, in peace.»