Re:A Year of Functional Programming
by morkbot on Monday June 09, 2014 @09:57AM
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That's a bit of an off-topic but may I ask, why Haskell over Clojure. What are the differences? You partly asked that in the 2nd part, but I would like to know more. I never did any serious FP so would love to know where to start: Scala? Clojure(Script)? Haskell? F#?
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Here's an article that was on the frontpage recently; some reflections from a Clojurist that switched to Haskell:
http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-04-29-meditations-on-learnin...
Re:A Year of Functional Programming
by JackMorgan on Monday June 09, 2014 @08:20PM
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I'd start with Haskell or Scheme. They are a lot easier to get started and learn than anything JVM. For Haskell, this course is awesome: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/lectures.html
For Scheme, just do the first two chapters of SICP. In fact, do that anyway!
Re:A Year of Functional Programming
by mark_l_watson on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:34AM
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It is mainly the stronger type system. I like the upfront checks. That said, I have used Clojure a lot - a fine language. BTW, I think that learning some Haskell will help with Clojure.