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I have an absolutely baseless suspicion that "the worst programmers [you] know" are significantly better than the worst ones I've worked with. The worst ones I
by NateEag 5y ago
I have an absolutely baseless suspicion that "the worst programmers [you] know" are significantly better than the worst ones I've worked with.
The worst ones I've worked with have probably never heard of Haskell, and I would be pretty surprised if they actually managed to write and run a Haskell program that did anything not entirely trivial without someone else helping.
- caslon 5y agoYou're probably correct. I've been very lucky to have mostly been around smart people, and so it's likely that the average middling person I come across is, well, just that. Middling status-climbers are still dangerous, though, and still work to ruin averages. That said, Haskell actually has a lot of great resources available, and I think it is learnable by just about anyone these days. It usually only takes one good book for a language to become available to average people, and Haskell has a great volume of beginner-friendly books. It can be debated as to whether this is a good thing or not, but I think it's always nice to see new pathways into programming become available, even if I'm not necessarily in love with a language.
- benreesman 5y agoI might be biased by having worked with Bryan O’Sullivan, but I personally think that RWH has aged fantastically well in the “get practical shit done in Haskell” genre.