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I didn't specialise in comp sci (my degree is in networking/security with a minor in software development) so the most we touched on is statistics and linear al

I didn't specialise in comp sci (my degree is in networking/security with a minor in software development) so the most we touched on is statistics and linear algebra. The "mathematician mindset" needed to program in Haskell is alien to me. I like the idea of immutability etc. but there's just too much friction to get into it. At least with Erlang it still feels like programming, Haskell just feels "wrong".

pdamoc 8y ago
Give Elm a chance. It is less complex than Haskell while retaining a lot of the declarative nature. Since it is mainly involved in generating HTML, the declarative nature is a good fit.
Gibbon1 8y ago
Was it John Carmack? Made a comment that he got into functional programming and got deeper and deeper into it and then realized there was nothing preventing him from using the same concepts in C++ but without the friction.