Is Haskell the Cure?

Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by Homunculiheaded on Monday October 03, 2011 @01:10PM (#3067143)

I think part of the issue with learning haskell is that it seems to invert the typical learning strategy for programming languages. Usually the best advice is read a little, then write a lot. Typically you can just look and some published code and go "ah yes that's how you do it". But I find, for better or worse, Haskell really requires you to understand before you code. Which in the end means your study to code ratio is very different than almost any other language.

Most languages, even lisps, are somewhat tolerant of 'programming by guessing' for beginners. Usually you write terrible code that works, learn more and see what you did wrong. Haskell is very unforgiving of this, if you don't understand why it works it probably won't

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by thesz on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:38AM (#3083501)

I think you're wrong at "if you don't understand why it works it probably won't".

While I long given up PUI (Programming Under Influence) I still occasionally do some in Haskell. After a litre of beer I am pretty dumb, but I can follow clues from compiler to get something working.

Most of the time, it works the next day, when I sober. That's in contrast with C/C++. Scripting languages give some power like that, but I can screw myself with them much more violently.

In my humble opinion, Haskell is the language of choice for drunken programmers.

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