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Learning the basics has its place. People have to start somewhere. A tutorial for more complex, real world problems is a totally different thing. Both are inter
by gdubs 7y ago
Learning the basics has its place. People have to start somewhere. A tutorial for more complex, real world problems is a totally different thing. Both are interesting in their own ways.
- nafizh 7y agoIf you have no background, why would you want to learn the basics in a language no one uses rather than the dominant language / framework of the specific domain? Seems to me an extra cognitive load to bear.
- k_bx 7y agoBecause it only takes one user to make language more popular. For example, Grammarly's first developer used Lisp as his main language, their linguistics is still written in a Lisp-family lang. As a Haskell developer, I'd be more comfortable to read Haddock-generated documentation for types of symbols, unfortunately it doesn't have too many good quality libraries in the ML field yet.
- alexmingoia 7y agoI am learning the basics of neural nets using Haskell because it’s far easier for me to reason precisely and mathematically with Haskell than with a referentially opaque and imprecise language such as Python.
- Jaxan 7y agoI have written quite some Haskell in my life, but never a line of python. For me this tutorial makes sense, it shows the underlying maths. So I don’t really understand your negative attitude.