Re:Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell
by tome on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:08PM
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This is a rather glib response. Of course one should choose the right tools for the situation. Personally if I'm prototyping an algorithm I'd rather do it with types so I don't write any code that was clearly nonsense before I even tried to run it.
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Re:Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:12PM
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Personally, I work the same way you do. But I've heard enough people who want the faster feedback of a REPL-like environment to accept that their approach at least feels more productive to them. It may even be more productive - for them. If so, tying them down with type specifications would slow them down, at least in the prototyping phase.