Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem
by the-owlery on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:17PM
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> > * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and
> I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang.
> The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion.
I use Clojure, generally like functional programming, and am fine using recursion.
> Haskell has such a clean looking syntax.
I have gotten fond of Clojure's Lisp-like syntax.
> Oh, I think you're trying to say the threshold of being good with haskell is much higher? Cause I see that argument quite and bit.
Not sure -- haven't spent any time with Haskell. Never tried Erlang either. Do you think it generally takes longer to become productive with Haskell than with other functional programming languages?
> I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang.
> The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion.
I use Clojure, generally like functional programming, and am fine using recursion.
> Haskell has such a clean looking syntax.
I have gotten fond of Clojure's Lisp-like syntax.
> Oh, I think you're trying to say the threshold of being good with haskell is much higher? Cause I see that argument quite and bit.
Not sure -- haven't spent any time with Haskell. Never tried Erlang either. Do you think it generally takes longer to become productive with Haskell than with other functional programming languages?