Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

Re:Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died by QuercusMax on Thursday April 30, 2015 @01:10PM (#9466287)

I started learning it on Tuesday, via learnyouahaskell.com. Half of what makes Haskell impenetrable to a non-Haskellite is the syntax, IMO; now that I'm starting to grok that, it really is quite wonderful.

Very sad news indeed.

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Re:Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died by creichert on Thursday April 30, 2015 @01:26PM (#9466380)

The syntax takes some getting used to but it's useful to point out that the core language is pretty small.

Here are some links which might help:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/10/how-to-desugar-haskell-...

https://github.com/kqr/gists/blob/master/articles/simple-syn...

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Re:Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died by vvpan on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:48PM (#9466888)

I dunno... I found actually solving problems in a functional way much harder than the syntax.

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Re:Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died by QuercusMax on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:12PM (#9467027)

I've done enough functional-esque coding in ruby/python/js/java8 that I can generally figure out a functional solution to lots of problems. I have not actually attempted to build any real software with Haskell yet, however; I'm mostly at the toy-program stage.

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