Re:On Marketing Haskell
by mjburgess on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:41AM
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The comments I've just read of his, are at least, all heavily referenced.
After spending nearly a decade thinking about haskell, everything here rings very true.
It's a language whose sales pitch begins by assuming you are using the language: here are all these solutions to problems you now have.
Laziness is the wrong default; it's a catastrophe for writing programs. It requires the whole category-theoretic infrastructure of haskell to solve, and then, imparts insurmountable complexity on writing anything real world.
After spending nearly a decade thinking about haskell, everything here rings very true.
It's a language whose sales pitch begins by assuming you are using the language: here are all these solutions to problems you now have.
Laziness is the wrong default; it's a catastrophe for writing programs. It requires the whole category-theoretic infrastructure of haskell to solve, and then, imparts insurmountable complexity on writing anything real world.