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No, it's really not. Haskell is a pain in the ass to program in. It's a language developed for mathematicians, not the real world. It makes the same mistakes as
by JabavuAdams 6y ago
No, it's really not. Haskell is a pain in the ass to program in. It's a language developed for mathematicians, not the real world. It makes the same mistakes as OpenCyc and expert systems.
I know assembly, C, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Python, MATLAB, C#, some D, some Javascript, some Mathematica. Programming in Haskell looks promising initially, but just drains all the joy and productivity out of my programming.
- pyrale 6y ago> [Haskell] just drains all the joy and productivity out of my programming. It's fine that you don't like the language. I mean, not everyone has to enjoy a language. On the other hand, there's a difference between voicing an opinion, which is personal, and making claims like: > Haskell is a pain in the ass to program in. It's a language developed for mathematicians, not the real world. Because then, you are discarding other people's experience about the language, while you claim your own experience is relevant.
- tome 6y ago> > [Haskell] just drains all the joy and productivity out of my programming. > It's fine that you don't like the language. I mean, not everyone has to enjoy a language. On the other hand, there's a difference between voicing an opinion, which is personal, and making claims like ... Indeed. Different people find different things fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711790