Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer

Re:Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer by zmimon on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @10:34PM (#408462)

As others have said, stop fighting the language and embrace it. For the Java haters, here's a Java one-liner that is not much longer (though I'll admit, uglier) than all the rest:

result = join(new ArrayList<String>(){{ addAll(list); while(remove("")); }},"\n");

And as a bonus - for the extra few characters you typed, this will fail at compile time instead of runtime when the list turns out to contain FooBars instead of strings.

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Re:Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer by cgranade on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @06:11AM (#408704)

Missing the application of Foo.description(). That said, I feel that compile-time failure is vastly underrated. Java is making even more progress on that front by introducing type checker frameworks with JSR 308.

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