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It's funny because the thing that always turned me off from Haskell was that it feels like a stream of whitespace and identifies without good visual cues as to
by cmrdporcupine 2y ago
It's funny because the thing that always turned me off from Haskell was that it feels like a stream of whitespace and identifies without good visual cues as to structure.
I'm sure once you get the zen of it, it's fine. Like Lisp, I guess, you learn to think in its structure. But looking at a screenful of Haskell to me is intimidating.
Of the bunch I found SML/NJ to be the most readable.
- eru 2y agoThe whitespace is the visual cue. But in any case, you can use curly braces and semicolons in Haskell just fine. You can also write your Haskell like Lisp, and add lots of parens everywhere, and use all operators in prefix-form.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoWell there's apparently a not insignificant amount of Haskell at the new job I'm starting in a week, so I guess I'll see how I fare with it.
- eru 2y agoOh, what's the new job?