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Re:Linus vs C++, again by eru on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:34PM (#1424039)
Haskell is claimed to make hard things easy, and impossible things happen. (Though, who knows, perhaps easy things will become impossible with it?)
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Re:Linus vs C++, again by orblivion on Friday June 11, 2010 @04:47PM (#1424697)
Not before making easy things hard, though.
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Re:Linus vs C++, again by eru on Saturday June 12, 2010 @12:34AM (#1425548)
You get used to it. The stuff that's easier in other languages than in Haskell is mostly done by hiding distinctions.
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Re:Linus vs C++, again by eru on Monday June 14, 2010 @07:02AM (#1429325)
Though not completely. Some stuff is made more complicated than necessary because of the choice of syntax. E.g. variadic function in Haskell vs Scheme. Or the the Haskell record-syntax.
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