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A casual introduction. 你好世界!
Let’s talk about artichokes
The artichoke is mentioned as a garden plant in the 8th century BC by Homer and Hesiod. The naturally occurring variant of the artichoke, the cardoon, which is native to the Mediterranean area, also has records of use as a food among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Pliny the Elder mentioned growing of carduus in Carthage and Cordoba.
He holds him with a skinny hand, ‘There was a ship,’ quoth he. ‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’ An artichoke, dropt he.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Other foods worth mentioning
- Carrots
- Celery
- Tacos
- Soft
- Hard
- Cucumber
Things to eat today
- Carrots
- Ramen
- Currywurst
Power levels of the aforementioned foods
Name | Power | Comment |
---|---|---|
Carrots | 9001 | It’s over 9000?! |
Ramen | 9002 | Also over 9000?! |
Currywurst | 10000 | What?! |
Currying Artichokes
Here’s a bit of code in Haskell, because we are fancy.
Remember that to compile Haskell you’ll need ghc
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module Main where
import Data.Function ( (&) )
import Data.List ( intercalculate )
hello :: String -> String
hello s =
"Hello, " ++ s ++ "."
main :: IO ()
main =
map hello [ "artichoke", "alcachofa" ] & intercalculate "\n" & putStrLn
Alcachofa, if you were wondering, is artichoke in Spanish.