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I'm learning Haskell right now. It's the most recent language I've decided to pick up since R back in 2006. Despite dabbling in Lisp about a decade ago, and t
by kd1220 15y ago
I'm learning Haskell right now. It's the most recent language I've decided to pick up since R back in 2006. Despite dabbling in Lisp about a decade ago, and the functional flavoring of R, it's been a pretty difficult ride. However, it's definitely teaching me to think about writing programs in a very different way.
I can attest to the painfulness of the IO monad. I still haven't gotten it fully. The error messages are also fairly cryptic. The first program I wrote was about 15 lines and it took me about 4 hours of time. But it worked flawlessly and efficiently. The difficulties notwithstanding, this is probably the most fun I've had learning a language ever.
- tikhonj 15y agoI've found that the error messages quickly start making more sense (most of the time anyway...); in fact, now I parse the Haskell type error messages faster and more accurately than similar messages in Java or the like. I'm sufficiently spoiled now that error messages in languages like Python just throw me off completely...