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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by azeirah on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:53AM (#16472436)
I don't think 'three haskell tutorials' is ever enough to teach you a completely new programming language/paradigm. You wouldn't learn C in 'three C tutorials' either, would you?

Perhaps a Haskell book with a project or two would be a better alternative?

Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by JasonFruit on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:53AM (#16472929)
No, but if well done, it could be enough for me to say, "I get why this is worth pursuing further." I've had the same experience as the person above: Haskell tutorials seem to say, "Look what I can do!" and not, "See how you can do this?"
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by castle-bravo on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:19AM (#16473082)
Well, after a few tutorials you should have noticed that it's a high-level language with clean syntax and a compiler that produces relatively fast binaries. That's a start. What else were you expecting?
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by netzone on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:14AM (#16473469)
Something that shows me how this is worth spending the time learning, when I could just as easily use another high-level language with clean syntax and a compiler that produces relatively fast binaries - but that are not functional - minus the learning curve.
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by castle-bravo on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:33PM (#16479187)
Well shit. I guess teaching languages designed by academicians aren't for you. Same goes for blog posts written by random amateurs on the internet. A whole three tutorials, too! You should ask for a refund.
Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by simonh on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:02PM (#16476711)
I didn’t expect to ‘learn Haskell’, but learning anything at all about how the actual code being presented worked would have been nice.