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A Haskell developer?

by arethuza 7y ago

joshmn 7y ago
Ouch.
Nevermindmyview 7y ago
I'll bet a choklate bar that 100% of all developers who spent 6 year using Haskell knows what a for-loop is.
- jerf 7y ago
  "for" is not that complicated, it's just mapM with its arguments pre-flipped: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Control-Monad.html#v:forM http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Contro... I don't know why you want to call that a "loop", but, sure, you do you, you crazy imperative programmers.
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    Because it is a loop in any sane language ... you overheaded functional programmers .. edit: Sigh. I was jockingly mocking.
s_dev 7y ago
Haskell just enforces iteration through recursion. How did he solve the iteration problem? A for loop is just syntactic sugar for a while loop.
hutzlibu 7y ago
I doubt there are many Haskell developers (or one at all) without a academic background ..
- alephu5 7y ago
  I'm a self-taught developer with haskell in my arsenal, although that being said I have an MSc in theoretical physics which probably helps me appreciate the power of its paradigm.
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    So you do have a academic background (especially math)..
- tasuki 7y ago
  There definitely are! Eg Jezen Thomas. Hopefully in the future also myself :)
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    You are sure he was never at a university? And why are you drawn to Haskell? For me I only had to deal with it a bit at university and I found the concept interesting, but could not imagine non math people to use it for anything as a language of choice
    - tasuki 7y ago
      I'm not sure he never was at university, I just assume not [1]. > why are you drawn to Haskell? I just want my programs to work. I've seen too many null pointer exceptions and other runtime errors. Runtime errors = bad. Compile errors = good. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112065
      - hutzlibu 7y ago
        "I just want my programs to work" Me too ... And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write. I allways imagined that you have to be a math nerd to prefer Haskell, but apparently this guy is not a math guy, but loves Haskell .. so ok, good counterpoint.
        tasuki 7y ago
        > And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write. Because it's what you've had exposure to. Perhaps, they're even objectively easier to read and write, I don't know. It's also completely besides my point. My point was that I want my programs to work as desired. That's orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write. I don't want runtime exceptions where I could've gotten a compile-time error.
        7y ago
- inflatableDodo 7y ago
  Hi. Not an academic. Currently fiddling around with OpenGL on Haskell, for reasons.

A Haskell developer?

joshmn 7y ago

Ouch.

Nevermindmyview 7y ago

I'll bet a choklate bar that 100% of all developers who spent 6 year using Haskell knows what a for-loop is.

jerf 7y ago
"for" is not that complicated, it's just mapM with its arguments pre-flipped: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Control-Monad.html#v:forM http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/Contro... I don't know why you want to call that a "loop", but, sure, you do you, you crazy imperative programmers.
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  Because it is a loop in any sane language ... you overheaded functional programmers .. edit: Sigh. I was jockingly mocking.

s_dev 7y ago

Haskell just enforces iteration through recursion. How did he solve the iteration problem? A for loop is just syntactic sugar for a while loop.

hutzlibu 7y ago

I doubt there are many Haskell developers (or one at all) without a academic background ..

alephu5 7y ago
I'm a self-taught developer with haskell in my arsenal, although that being said I have an MSc in theoretical physics which probably helps me appreciate the power of its paradigm.
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  So you do have a academic background (especially math)..
tasuki 7y ago
There definitely are! Eg Jezen Thomas. Hopefully in the future also myself :)
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  You are sure he was never at a university? And why are you drawn to Haskell? For me I only had to deal with it a bit at university and I found the concept interesting, but could not imagine non math people to use it for anything as a language of choice
  - tasuki 7y ago
    I'm not sure he never was at university, I just assume not [1]. > why are you drawn to Haskell? I just want my programs to work. I've seen too many null pointer exceptions and other runtime errors. Runtime errors = bad. Compile errors = good. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112065
    - hutzlibu 7y ago
      "I just want my programs to work" Me too ... And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write. I allways imagined that you have to be a math nerd to prefer Haskell, but apparently this guy is not a math guy, but loves Haskell .. so ok, good counterpoint.
      - tasuki 7y ago
        > And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write. Because it's what you've had exposure to. Perhaps, they're even objectively easier to read and write, I don't know. It's also completely besides my point. My point was that I want my programs to work as desired. That's orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write. I don't want runtime exceptions where I could've gotten a compile-time error.
        7y ago
inflatableDodo 7y ago
Hi. Not an academic. Currently fiddling around with OpenGL on Haskell, for reasons.