https://briar-patch.neocities.org/tags/functional-programming/ Recent content in Functional Programming on Briar Patch Hugo en-us Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:52:26 -0700 https://briar-patch.neocities.org/posts/admire_purity/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:52:26 -0700 https://briar-patch.neocities.org/posts/admire_purity/ <p>The title, if you didn&rsquo;t catch it, is a reference to the movie <em>Alien</em>.</p> <p>Specifically, it&rsquo;s a reference to the part (spoiler alert for a movie from 1979) where the crew discovers one of their fellow crewmates, Ash, is actually an android. They discover this when he tries to kill Ellen Ripley, our protagonist, and after he&rsquo;s clubbed to death with a fire extinguisher, the crew reconnects his severed head for a final interrogation.</p>