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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by lonelappde on Saturday April 11, 2020 @02:19PM (#22843159)
Note that Dijkstra recommendes Haskell over Java because Haskell is arcane and mathematical, which is good for learning computer science, not because it's good for writing software.
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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by random314 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @02:31PM (#22843223)
Your paraphrasing of "novel" as "arcane" is in bad faith. It is also self evident that djikstra believes that learning computer science is good for writing software.
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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by Koshkin on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:09PM (#22843462)
No one would recommend a language “because it’s arcane.”
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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by erik_seaberg on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:28PM (#22843595)
I would recommend a language because it's different than anything you're familiar with. It gives you more approaches to solving problems.
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Re:What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell by 0_gravitas on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:25PM (#22844695)
I'm gonna need a quote on that one
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