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Re:Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? ... by havercosine on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:33AM (#32529103)
Thanks for writing about that experience, makes sense. My first to forays in the language ended the same way. I tried to do mainstream programming stuff in it but realised I wasn't making much progress in first few days and eventually moved on.
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Re:Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? ... by epgui on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:51AM (#32529173)
It sounds like you folks didn't give the language enough of a chance and may have felt the friction of trying to write Haskell in the style of another language. It takes a while to learn how to go with the grain, in any language.

While I totally sympathize with this, I'm not sure it's a very good vantage point from which to judge a language.

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Re:Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? ... by pdimitar on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:59AM (#32529215)
Which goes back to the root comment and the issue it raised:

Where are the practical Haskell tutorials. No preaching, no "you're holding it wrong", ONLY this: "you need to handle arbitrarily nested JSON? here's how".

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Re:Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? ... by gilmi on Saturday August 20, 2022 @01:09AM (#32529272)
- Learn Haskell by building a blog generator[0] (disclaimer: I wrote this)

- Simple Haskell Handbook[1]

- Haskell (Almost) Standard Libraries[2]

- [0]: https://lhbg-book.link

- [1]: https://marcosampellegrini.com/simple-haskell-book

- [2]: https://leanpub.com/haskell-stdlibs/

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Re:Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia? ... by epgui on Saturday August 20, 2022 @01:10AM (#32529277)
This is a pretty good resource, and there are many others: https://www.amazon.ca/Haskell-Depth-Vitaly-Bragilevsky/dp/16...

Learning an entirely new language is hard and requires patience and perseverance!

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