{"id":32,"date":"2004-02-12T20:11:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2004\/02\/12\/mess-mess-mess\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:49:41","slug":"mess-mess-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/mess-mess-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Mess, mess, mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11369,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.haskell.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251031105254\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.haskell.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:32:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-16 14:35:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 08:00:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 09:02:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 01:35:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 12:52:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 14:48:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 22:01:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 22:14:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:59:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:06:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:24:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:24:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11370,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forums.somethingawful.com\\\/showthread.php?s=e7842eff83e4a3beaf0b88a45bcccc33&amp;threadid=830487&amp;perpage=40&amp;pagenumber=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102213310\\\/https:\\\/\\\/forums.somethingawful.com\\\/showthread.php?s=e7842eff83e4a3beaf0b88a45bcccc33&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/forums.somethingawful.com\\\/showthread.php?s=e7842eff83e4a3beaf0b88a45bcccc33&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-16 14:35:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 08:00:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 09:02:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 01:35:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 12:52:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 14:48:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 22:01:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 14:42:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:59:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:06:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:24:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:24:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Luckily most of this weeks horrible stuff is out the way now, all thats left is to finish of and submit the SEG Design document tomorrow. To put it bluntly the functional programming (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haskell.org\">Haskell<\/a>) project was horrific. What should have taken little more than two hours (according to the lecturer) took me around twelve hours. I don\u2019t want to think about pattern matching or recursive functions for a very long time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My parents often accuse me of hoarding to much stuff but I thought I\u2019d post a link to show them how good I actually am and how mush worse it could be! Take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.somethingawful.com\/showthread.php?s=e7842eff83e4a3beaf0b88a45bcccc33&amp;threadid=830487&amp;perpage=40&amp;pagenumber=1\">here<\/a> (if you dare). I can only imagine that the person who the house belongs must have some sort of medical disorder, its pretty frightening to imagine how they manage to live in amongst all the mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily most of this weeks horrible stuff is out the way now, all thats left is to finish of and submit the SEG Design document tomorrow. To put it bluntly the functional programming (Haskell) project was horrific. What should have taken little more than two hours (according to the lecturer) took me around twelve hours. 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