> why hate on a language you haven't studied I've studied it well enough to understand its drawbacks. I don't understand Haskell's benefits very clearly, but

> why hate on a language you haven't studied I've studied it well enough to understand its drawbacks. I don't understand Haskell's benefits very clearly, but I'm skeptical that the benefits of Haskell outweigh its drawbacks in the context it was being discussed. > "So what? Functions are perfectly easy to use in C and I can also pass them around provided I'm willing to stomach a little indirection, why do I need the unfamiliar syntax of Haskell to do something I can already accomplish in C?" So I can see where the function pointer remark is coming from. It might represent a misunderstanding of functional programming, but it's a misunderstanding It sounds like you understand exactly the mindset I have and the question I'm trying to ask. But you don't answer the question -- and neither does anybody else in this thread, even though obtaining an answer to this question was supposed to be the point of the original posting. I suppose rephrasing it should be: "What does Haskell accomplish with functions that passing around function pointers in C does not?" Your answer is, "Something totally different that I did not understand before I knew Haskell, and which I understood after I knew Haskell." This does not answer the question!