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Or learning the underlying programming paradigm. Even if Haskell used a Python-like syntax, I bet people would still find it 90% as hard to learn as they do no
by fouric 5y ago
Or learning the underlying programming paradigm.
Even if Haskell used a Python-like syntax, I bet people would still find it 90% as hard to learn as they do now, due to the killer combination of lazy evaluation and purely-functional design.
- JoelMcCracken 5y agoYep. People often point at syntax and say "yuk!" but the problem is really not groking semantics. Syntax is just easy to bikeshed.
- fouric 5y agoThank you for clarifying my point, and attaching precise terminology to it! Come to think of it, that's probably why people mistakenly think that Lisps are so hard. The syntax is scary, and easy to bikeshed - even though most of their semantics (for CL and Scheme, at least) are really easy, and very similar to Python.