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Haskell always struck me as a language you'd want to use to feel superior to the people who code in JS and python, and crypto always struck me as a field you'd
by twat 6y ago
Haskell always struck me as a language you'd want to use to feel superior to the people who code in JS and python, and crypto always struck me as a field you'd want to work in to feel superior to the people who work in industries that actually generate profits.
Also, another possible reason is that many crypto people tend to confuse complexity with ingenuity. While the bitcoin whitepaper tries to make a complex topic as simple as possible, a great many crypto companies and people purposely use language that is needlessly convoluted and verbose.
Perhaps they're doing it on purpose to seem smarter?
- tsss 6y agoDo you even know what "verbose" means? Haskell is obviously the exact opposite of verbose. In fact some more verbosity often makes it easier to understand.
- rjknight 6y agoIn context, the "language" GP was referring to was the (presumably English) language in crypto currency white papers which is "needlessly convoluted and verbose". This was being contrasted with the concise language of the original Bitcoin white paper. It's not about programming languages.
- twat 6y agoYea what this guy said ^
- 1tCKV3QfIo 6y agoJust say you don't want to learn more than the absolute minimum when it comes to programming language theory. No one will give you shit if you are honest about it.