Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l...
by cakoose on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:26PM
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Ugh, that didn't go as planned.
1. Sorry to everyone about the "his". Like most people guessed, I explicitly tried not to use gender, but I slipped up.
2. I didn't mean to imply you were bad at programming. The only goal of my comment was "if you're thinking about learning Haskell, don't be scared off by point-free style". I thought that providing more background would help people understand the temptation, but I should have divorced it more from your decision to use point-free style.
(What's funny is that these were things I was aware of and tried to handle well, but still managed to screw up.)
1. Sorry to everyone about the "his". Like most people guessed, I explicitly tried not to use gender, but I slipped up.
2. I didn't mean to imply you were bad at programming. The only goal of my comment was "if you're thinking about learning Haskell, don't be scared off by point-free style". I thought that providing more background would help people understand the temptation, but I should have divorced it more from your decision to use point-free style.
(What's funny is that these were things I was aware of and tried to handle well, but still managed to screw up.)