News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Trying Haskell.

Re:Trying Haskell by Tiomaidh on Sunday April 10, 2011 @11:14AM (#2429590)
"Oh look, Haskell is great! Why? Static typing and concise code and no side effects!"

I don't disagree on any particular point, but this is hardly news (on HN, at least), and is rather lacking in substance.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Trying Haskell by danieldk on Sunday April 10, 2011 @12:29PM (#2429771)
Indeed. Also, rewriting base library functionality is bad ;):

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/libraries/base-4....

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Trying Haskell by eru on Sunday April 10, 2011 @12:49PM (#2429823)
Unless it's just an exercise or done for fun.
[ Parent | on HN ]