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I like the argument, especially using the word "blub" to describe the cruft that is inherent to the language, but I have to question how much it's preaching to
by andreyf 17y ago
I like the argument, especially using the word "blub" to describe the cruft that is inherent to the language, but I have to question how much it's preaching to the choir, and how much will penetrate people who don't already agree.
Maybe it's indicative of my crowd and not the community at large, but even the smartest people seem to hit up Haskell-for-fun and Python-in-practice over Arc. It's hard to call them blub-programmers, since they're genuinely curious, hard-working people...
- klipt 17y agoHaskell isn't exactly blub; between the first class functions and the custom monads it's quite possible to create custom languages. E.g. the parsing library Parsec: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html
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- gaius 17y agoHaskell-for-fun and Python-in-practice I am in exactly that camp, tho' I do fully intend to use Haskell for real once it becomes viable to do so. It's like the Python Paradox all over again.