Aaargh!

An email from the people to whom I applied:

( I missed the point entirely, it seems :-( )

I wouldn't mind so much if they'd asked for a "Personal Statement" or something - to me, the term "Research Proposal" suggests that it should mainly be about the research that you propose to undertake. But apparently not. I've got until, er, tomorrow to submit another one :-(

In other news, hearken ye programmers unto Steve Yegge's latest drunken blog rant. I've been having similar thoughts myself, related to Bad Things that have happened to me with big codebases: it's a large part of why I'm so interested in the APL family*. But I'd like to stick my neck out and say that the way Steve feels about Java is the way I feel about Haskell.

* I note in passing that that page comes up first in a Google search for "APL lesson" - epic win!