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> super-clean Haskell The super-cleanest Haskell still has a ton of syntax to learn compared to Scheme. If your goal is to teach concepts of programming, almos
by BoiledCabbage 10y ago
> super-clean Haskell
The super-cleanest Haskell still has a ton of syntax to learn compared to Scheme. If your goal is to teach concepts of programming, almost any time spent on the syntax of a particular language is time wasted. Particularly so during a semester in university.
Similarly, if you won't be using FP for your day job, and would be using it for the insight gained (and have never used it), a language where you can begin learning concepts without needing to internals a bunch of syntax or infix operator precedence rules is also the better choice.
- dualogy 10y ago> a ton of syntax to learn A handful of keywords (same as any language), fewer (mandatory) parens & braces than any other language, no (mandatory) semicolons, the same sort of indentation one tends to apply in any language anyway --- Essential-Haskell's "ton of syntax" in a nutshell. Precedence rules for the built-in `Num` and `Bool` operators are equivalent to all languages. Other operators are either custom-defined (outside the scope of language's "syntax") or entirely inessential convenience-vehicles such as for composition (unnecessary, just handy in practice) or avoiding even more parens (dito) --- of which there are 2. Any tutorials or text-books that rely on such or other operators as part of "syntax" are, in that respect, simply a bit flawed.