{"id":9187,"date":"2020-10-03T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2020-10-03T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:54:18","slug":"the-types-controversy-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9187","title":{"rendered":"The Types Controversy Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9185\">yesterday\u2019s heavy duty post on modernizing Emacs<\/a>, here\u2019s something to refresh your palate. I find this hilarious on many levels. Your mileage may vary:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">types are social constructs created by Big Compiler to sell more passes<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (lambda () &#8216;james) (@yoo_hoo_yoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yoo_hoo_yoo\/status\/1311434034463928320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_wilfredh\">Wilfred Hughes<\/a> on whose Twitter feed I found this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday\u2019s heavy duty post on modernizing Emacs, here\u2019s something to refresh your palate. I find this hilarious on many levels. Your mileage may vary: types are social constructs created by Big Compiler to sell more passes \u2014 (lambda () &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}