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Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by prollyignored on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:18AM (#5873028)
Attention to syntax is what ruby is good at.

Scala, Haskell treat syntax as a chore.

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Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by dons on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:37AM (#5873079)
You don't know Haskell.

> take 8 $ cycle [1,2,3]

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Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by pja on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:29AM (#5873257) 

  cycleM x = x `mplus` (cycleM x)

  take 8 $ cycleM [1,2,3]
might be more generic?
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Re:Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by... by lucian1900 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:50AM (#5873121)
Scala maybe, not Haskell (which barely has any syntax).
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