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Re:The Future of Programming by asdasf on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:32PM (#6134961)
>A Haskell programmer unfamiliar with APL looks at an APL program and...

And says "what's the big deal?". That's exactly the question, what is the big deal. APL isn't scary, I'm not shouting "I can't make sense of this", I am asking "how is this better than haskell in the same way haskell is better than java?".

Re:The Future of Programming by jfarmer on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:24AM (#6139550)
I'm not really interested in debating the reaction of an imagined Haskell programmer. I was just restating what the grandparent's analogy meant.

Your question is fine, but not what he meant by the analogy.

Re:The Future of Programming by asdasf on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:57AM (#6140309)
I'm not imagined, I am real. I know you were restating the analogy, the problem is that the analogy is wrong. I can't find anything about APL that a haskell developer would find new or interesting or frightening or anything like that.
Re:The Future of Programming by jfarmer on Friday August 02, 2013 @12:19PM (#6147894)
Ok.