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I learned some Haskell, and even wrote a couple of small programs and simple pull requests in it. However, I still wouldn't be able to effectively read and main
by golergka 7y ago
I learned some Haskell, and even wrote a couple of small programs and simple pull requests in it. However, I still wouldn't be able to effectively read and maintain such code at a reasonable pace.
There are many reasons to love Haskell. The static typing, prevention of bugs, the whole ethos of "doing things the right way", the beauty of abstractions. But I don't think that I would be able to be really productive in it in a reasonably sized project. And code written in this blog post illustrates this very well.
- marcosdumay 7y agoYou shouldn't get downvotes, that's certainly a very common impression to get after writing small programs. But the ethos of the language is not "doing things the right way", it's "do it first, make it right while it grows". The biggest point of the language is on refactoring.