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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by willtim on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:00AM (#20194218)
Sounds like he (edit: or more accurately, the university) has hasn't taught them enough functional programming and Haskell.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by epse on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:20AM (#20194292)
He teaches compilers. Not programming or fp, so definitely not the professors fault
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by willtim on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:52AM (#20194373)
Yes, but it's still a great pity, as Haskell, a descendent of ML (the "meta-language") is a suberb fit for writing a compiler.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by anaphor on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:36PM (#20197119)
It's my understanding that UW offers some undergrad courses in Racket, but apparently they're optional so if you hadn't taken that course you might not know much about functional programming.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by 256 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:15PM (#20197315)
There is a mandatory compilers-lite course at UW and he teaches the advanced version of it, where the project is to fill in pieces of a Scala-lite compiler written in Scala.
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