Name: Anonymous 2015-11-07 18:25
Mathematics Teacher Enjoys Bird Watching
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The reporter misheard the name of Prof Curry's organization, which was the State College Bird-Wadler Club.
This of course was a reading group of computer scientists and graduate students at Penn State. The three-foot pile of papers was the accumulated output of Drs Richard Bird and Philip Wadler, evidently printed doubled-sided on tissue. The group met in the park to emphasize the fact that computer science has nothing at all to do with computers, the membership's incidence of astenopic myopia notwithstanding (the preponderance of corrective lenses of unusual thickness, understandably mistaken for binoculars of another sort, perhaps further mislead our intrepid reporter). Yes, exclamations resounded of the rarity and beauty of Bird's idiosyncrasies; the predilection for tweed among the Bird-Wadlers was merely coincidental.
An altogether understandable error, given the deplorable state of journalism, then, now, and generally.
http://www.catonmat.net/images/haskell-curry-bird-watching-fb.jpg
The reporter misheard the name of Prof Curry's organization, which was the State College Bird-Wadler Club.
This of course was a reading group of computer scientists and graduate students at Penn State. The three-foot pile of papers was the accumulated output of Drs Richard Bird and Philip Wadler, evidently printed doubled-sided on tissue. The group met in the park to emphasize the fact that computer science has nothing at all to do with computers, the membership's incidence of astenopic myopia notwithstanding (the preponderance of corrective lenses of unusual thickness, understandably mistaken for binoculars of another sort, perhaps further mislead our intrepid reporter). Yes, exclamations resounded of the rarity and beauty of Bird's idiosyncrasies; the predilection for tweed among the Bird-Wadlers was merely coincidental.
An altogether understandable error, given the deplorable state of journalism, then, now, and generally.