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"My book" doesn't tell what's bad, but things like how the community surrounding a tool is. You can't expect a problem will be solved if it's not even acknoled
by narag 11y ago
"My book" doesn't tell what's bad, but things like how the community surrounding a tool is. You can't expect a problem will be solved if it's not even acknoledged.
Also let me insist that these are heuristics I apply to what I use for my own consumption, usually to create private tools that will make my life easier, or just to learn something satisfying.
That said, I bet you know Haskell better than me. The fact you singled it out asking about it makes me suspicious it shows at least one of the red flags :-)
If that's right, I don't care how good it is.
- DenisM 11y agoActually I don't know Haskell beyond the most basic examples. I singled it out because it was one of the cases where "Promises 10x productivity" may be, well, the least outlandish. But it does come at the cost of "change of paradigm". For me C# is at least twice as productive as Objective-C, so I suspect there more where that came from. I'm on the lookout for another 2x boost. But the farther down that road you go, the more isolated you become. It's a bit of a balancing act between individual productivity and being able to hire and work in groups, or to find help. Perhaps