Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
by dragonwriter on Friday August 01, 2014 @03:29PM
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> I'd say that F#, OCaml, and Scala are all more accessible than Haskell just due to their placing less of a cognitive burden on the beginner.
I think that this is largely a documentation issue rather than a language issue; that is, while certainly its a language issue -- a strength -- that implementing things with a strong basis in (e.g.) category theory is facilitated in Haskell, its a documentation issue that many things implemented in Haskell libraries are not explained in a manner accessible to programmers who don't have that kind of background.
I think that this is largely a documentation issue rather than a language issue; that is, while certainly its a language issue -- a strength -- that implementing things with a strong basis in (e.g.) category theory is facilitated in Haskell, its a documentation issue that many things implemented in Haskell libraries are not explained in a manner accessible to programmers who don't have that kind of background.