Re:What Is Good About Haskell?
by pdimitar on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:42PM
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> I mean, at the end of the day, it's learning the functional programming concepts that is supposedly going to make you a better programmer. Why not just start learning those in Java, Python, JS, etc.?
Because every OOP/imperative programmer I've ever known for 18 years has the easy way out in not thinking about side effects or immutability and they never proactively reach for them.
Granted my bubble is not representative of the world but this trend is nevertheless quite telling. I also never proactively reached for FP techniques in OOP/imperative language until I learned my first FP language.
Because every OOP/imperative programmer I've ever known for 18 years has the easy way out in not thinking about side effects or immutability and they never proactively reach for them.
Granted my bubble is not representative of the world but this trend is nevertheless quite telling. I also never proactively reached for FP techniques in OOP/imperative language until I learned my first FP language.