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One warning. Some functional programming materials (books, tutorials, etc) can be way too theoretical. However this has changed a lot in recent years. The lang
by adultSwim 11y ago
One warning. Some functional programming materials (books, tutorials, etc) can be way too theoretical. However this has changed a lot in recent years.
The language itself isn't rocket science. If whatever you're reading isn't a good fit, try to find something else.
- vegabook 11y agoYes it seems to attract a high-end CS crowd - there's lots of graduate-level CS assumption going on in some of the tutorials. But one of the things I really appreciate is the REPL ("toplevel") which let's you hack around and mess with examples in an interactive way. So good for a compiled language.
- klibertp 11y agoMuch better in this regard than Haskell, though. Being impure and eager makes the most die-hard academics go for Haskell instead.
- ufo 11y agoOcaml stuff seems to be a bit more down to earth in my experience. As long as you stay away from GADTs :)