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Haskell is also a 30 year old language and I think it has a lot more to say about the future of programming than Python
by valcron1000 4y ago
Haskell is also a 30 year old language and I think it has a lot more to say about the future of programming than Python
- roflyear 4y agoWhat is that?
- valcron1000 4y agoFrom the top of my head: - First class functions (pretty much all languages) - First class null values through Option/Maybe (several languages use nullable types like Typescript but it's an approximation to the real thing) - Unit type instead of hacks like 'void' (Kotlin, Rust) - Expressions over statements (ex. if..then..else is an expression, and you don't rely on hacks like ternary expressions) (Kotlin, Rust, Scala) - Statically typed with full type inference (Kotlin, Rust, Scala) - Pattern matching (Java and C# are continuously extending this feature) - Green threads as default (Go, soon Java) - Decouple data from interfaces through Type Classes/Traits (Rust, C#'s static virtual members in interfaces is a start) - Generic programming. Do not confuse this with parametric polymorphism (I think Rust has an approximation through macros) - Effects (like IO) as first class values (Scala's ecosystem tries to mimic this) Haskell was released in 1990 and feels more modern than most "modern" languages.