I've read this several times now, but I still laugh when I get to this sentence:

"Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them."

It might be a duplicate, but I didn't see it last year and I'm happy you posted it - I laughed, I cried; it became a part of me.

This made my day. :D Sorry this was too funny had to paste my favorite:

1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer. Skynet's motives for performing the service remain unclear but spokespeople from the future say "there is nothing to be concerned about, baby," in an Austrian accented monotones. There is some speculation that Skynet is nothing more than a pretentious buffer overrun.

My intellectual curiosity has been gratified to the fullest extent.

The small print says it was updated September 2010.

(I know, it's April 9th. That date format/ordering just gets my goat.)

I thought I saw this just a few days ago, so I googled. This was posted here 6 days ago but got only five upvotes and one comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310127

This seems to happen a lot. Someone should do some A/B-style testing to figure out why. I nominate you. :-)

The obvious reason is here "HN is getting too big" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329147 many articles are disappearing off the new posts pages before many people get a chance to see them.

Had me rolling. Great work. Somebody knows computer languages too well. :)

That is pretty funny. Had me laughing out loud which pretty rare for nerd humour (which is usually cringe worthy).

By the way for future editions there has to be a good joke about Haskell being lazy because it was created by a bunch of hippies.

"lambda the ultimate kitchen utensil"

I think we need Clojure in there.