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shrug When I look at Haskell code I see overly terse expressions and nothing resembling the concept of self-documentation.
by dleslie 10y ago
shrug When I look at Haskell code I see overly terse expressions and nothing resembling the concept of self-documentation.
- cies 10y agoAre you fluent in Haskell?
- dleslie 10y agoI was some years ago, before I gave up on the language; but one shouldn't have to be fluent in a language for it to satisfy the concepts of self-documentation and readability. Requiring domain-specific knowledge of symbolic notation is not a trait of self-documenting languages. Recommending that the API search engine be open alongside or within your editor is likewise not a trait of self-documenting languages. Self-documenting languages are coherent at-a-glance to average programmers with little to no knowledge of the language. Haskell is not this.