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Re:Haskell in Production by empath75 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:11PM (#21287523)
> Honestly this sentiment from the Haskell community that Haskell is somehow bizarre and impenetrable to outsiders

They’re not inventing that from thin air. I can understand Haskell with a great deal of effort, but it certainly requires a great deal of effort.

My wife is a non-programmer. She knows nothing about code. I could explain what the go code I write does in a few minutes and she could follow it with a minimum of hand waving. I don’t think I could explain any non trivial Haskell code in hours to even professional programmers

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Re:Haskell in Production by mbrodersen on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:40AM (#21291247)
I have explained Haskell code in a few minuts to professional programmers and they got it. It took a bit longer to explain monads but it wasn't hours.
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Re:Haskell in Production by mbrodersen on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:41AM (#21291254)
I have tried to teach C# to a smart non-programmers friend. That was really really hard. The idea of OO/classes just blew his mind.
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