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Came here to say exactly this. And also to point to this excellent article: https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html https://pchiusano.githu
by atroche 7y ago
Came here to say exactly this.
And also to point to this excellent article: https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html
- cousin_it 7y agoJoel Spolsky called it two decades ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/12/11/lord-palmerston-on-programming/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/12/11/lord-palmerston-on... Until you’ve done Windows programming for a while, you may think that Win32 is just a library, like any other library, you’ll read the book and learn it and call it when you need to. You might think that basic programming, say, your expert C++ skills, are the 90% and all the APIs are the 10% fluff you can catch up on in a few weeks. To these people I humbly suggest: times have changed. The ratio has reversed. Read the whole article, it's pretty amazing. Parts of it are just as relevant to mobile development today as to desktop development back then.