Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in...
by stewbrew on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:12AM
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This actually actually looks surprisingly readable to me. What I find really funny though is how they use Haskell as a strict language mostly working around its lazy nature with all those do, let etc. constructs. It really makes you wonder if they wouldn't have preferred a strict version of Haskell to begin with. Which is funny of course, given Haskell's propaganda around laziness & pure functional programming.
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Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in...
by afraca on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:52AM
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These days Haskell proponents aren't as proud anymore on laziness. Simon Peyton Jones has actually admitted it was a mistake for it to be the default :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924061
Nevertheless, it has its use cases.
Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in...
by tome on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:22AM
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That's far from the admission of a mistake.