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> once, you understand it and it becomes a really good friend, it just takes months Same for Haskell. It seems that some great languages take some investment i

by cies 4y ago

> once, you understand it and it becomes a really good friend, it just takes months Same for Haskell. It seems that some great languages take some investment in order to become productive with them.

paskozdilar 4y ago
Same for Lisp :)
- cies 4y ago
  Indeed. Writing assembly also needs a big up-front investment, but I'm not sure how many have every considered it to be a good friendship. :)
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  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    When in need assembly is a friend indeed. It might not be the friend you'd want to go on a hiking trip with - that is, unless you like to eat birch bark spaghetti and drink fish blood - but it is the friend you know will be there to help you when birch bark spaghetti and fish blood are the only things available.
    - cies 4y ago
      > eat birch bark spaghetti and drink fish blood you cracked me up. tnx.
  - paskozdilar 4y ago
    To be fair, someone liked it enough to build an OS in it: http://kolibrios.org http://kolibrios.org http://menuetos.net http://menuetos.net
rapsey 4y ago
Low barrier to entry is great for adoption. Has nothing to do with the quality of the resulting product and often it is inverse.
shirogane86x 4y ago
Yeah I've had the same experience (with Haskell, and with Rust). Lisp probably counts too, and maybe even Array languages like APL? It does feel amazing though. It does take a while to learn and internalize these great languages, but once you do it feels like you have superpowers sometimes. I would never even attempt to write some of the things I've written in Haskell in other languages.