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Re:Why the world needs Haskell by spullara on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:48AM (#6017503)
People who program because they like puzzles, puzzle me. I like things that are straight forward and obvious when I program.
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Re:Why the world needs Haskell by merijnv on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:52AM (#6018395)
> I like things that are straight forward and obvious when I program.

So do I, which is why I program in Haskell rather than the other languages which make me worry about a ton of irrelevant things like the global state of my program and don't let me enforce invariants of my code in the type system, guaranteeing I can't violate without making the type checker complain.

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Re:Why the world needs Haskell by platz on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:31AM (#6017638)
Sure, but if you're mr. straight forward and obvious all the time, I bet your skills will plateau faster than the puzzler.
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Re:Why the world needs Haskell by cgag on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @07:32PM (#6023537)
Straight forward and obvious meaning directly align with the first thing you learned when learning to program.

I like my languages straight forward, that's why I stick to English.

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