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Haskell is probably #1 for languages that old guard types fawn over and, yea, I think it's pretty cool, but don't ever expect to be in a situation where I get p
by jdpigeon 8y ago
Haskell is probably #1 for languages that old guard types fawn over and, yea, I think it's pretty cool, but don't ever expect to be in a situation where I get paid to write it.
I really liked Racket a lot actually! It turned me on to the whole functional programming style that I still try to maintain in JavaScript. Unfortunately, I only got to write it for a semester in school and when I moved on to JavaScript enjoyed not having the insanity of all those parentheses and not having to do everything myself (via js array functions, lodash, and the npm ecosystem)
- leshow 8y agoMaybe there's a reason people keep saying it? I guess you'll never know until you try it yourself. > enjoyed not having the insanity of all those commas and not having to do everything myself Racket has a pretty robust std library that includes things like folds, maps, zips and whatever else you'd be using from lodash. It's also pretty void of commas, not really sure what you mean.
- jdpigeon 8y agocommas -> parentheses
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- mikekchar 8y agoThere was a time when I never thought I'd get paid to write unit tests. In fact, I often joked about how much I wanted to write tests but that it was completely unrealistic to expect the industry to change. When my boss suddenly jumped on board the testing bandwagon I thought, "I'd better not lose this job. I'll never find another one like it". Things do change!