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Anyone else getting real tired of these "Clone of XXX, Using HASKELL!!!" threads? I'm not impressed that people are able to complete straightforward programmin

Anyone else getting real tired of these "Clone of XXX, Using HASKELL!!!" threads? I'm not impressed that people are able to complete straightforward programming tasks using a certain programming language; if the users of said language think I should be, then IMO there's something pretty deficient about the language. Edit: Just to be clear, I have no particular problem with Haskell, but it seems like there's an awful amount of language envy coming from its users, and a lot of attempts to prove that you actually can program normal things in the language; but I'd greatly prefer to see examples of what Haskell can do that would be difficult in Java, Ruby, Lisp, etc., rather than examples where with great difficulty you can achieve what is trivial in any other language.

tdavis 17y ago
Hear, hear. I already have a general-purpose programming language that allows me to do most things relatively trivially. I want to know why I should add Haskell to my toolbox, not replace my perfectly good hammer with it. For instance, I learneda while back that stable, asynchronous, distributed networking applications are made trivial by the likes of Erlang. That's a good reason to learn that type of language. Haskell seems like a nice language, but I'm not yet convinced it is worthy of a slot.