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Because they're elegant. Haskell is a conceptual and syntax mess.
by coldtea 6mo ago
Because they're elegant. Haskell is a conceptual and syntax mess.
- ngruhn 6mo agoCompared to lisp? Ok fine. Syntax doesn't get more simple than Lisp. But compared to JavaScript? C++? C#? Haskell is top tier when it comes to syntactic and conceptual elegance. The biggest problem is tooling, I would say.
- coldtea 6mo agoI don't think: "Haskell: more elegant than Javascript and C++" would make a good promotional motto. That's like bragging how prettier you are than Danny Trejo.
- jes5199 6mo agoI could not agree less. People used to call Python “executable pseudocode” - in that spirit, Haskell is executable pseudo-math. If you’ve done enough higher math that a professor’s whiteboard notation feels natural to you, then Haskell might feel like a reasonable approximation of that style. Otherwise: it’s line noise. (I write Haskell professionally)
- anthk 6mo agoThat's what I felt with MLite, my intro to ML languages (A quick start in Ocaml barely counts, so didn't configuring XMonad back in the day). It's like declaring math statements, observations and rules as if it were a Math textbook. https://www.t3x.org/mlite/index.html https://www.t3x.org/mlite/index.html
- isatty 6mo agoHaskell is very elegant and pretty. It's hard to describe what pretty is when it comes to programming languages, but imo golang is ugly, rust is good, and Haskell the best.
- qsera 6mo agoFor me one of the best things about Haskell is syntax and how clean it is.
- mchaver 6mo agoI guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I've always liked Haskell and OCaml syntax.