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> Haskell and the like will remain used only by people that just think there's no way to write any useful program without first learning all about category theo
by codygman 12y ago
> Haskell and the like will remain used only by people that just think there's no way to write any useful program without first learning all about category theory.
Oh please, you just devalued your entire comment with that untrue and derisive comment. Haskell is used by people who highly value composability, purity, correctness, and who believe mutable state should have a big red flag around it and be limited as much as possible.
- frowaway001 12y agoI think you have just proven his comment about the attitude of Haskell users.
- tel 12y agoPurity, composability, correctness, and avoidance of mutability are hardly category theoretic or exclusively praised by Haskellers. You could claim that Haskellers are particularly enthusiastic in their desire to optimize for those things, but now you have to describe why that's a bad thing. And it's still not related the gp's points of badmouthing other languages or being unmarketable.
- frowaway001 12y agoTry reading again what I wrote. Nothing I said is about "Purity, composability, correctness, and avoidance of mutability" and "why that's a bad thing", and all about "badmouthing other languages or being unmarketable".
- codygman 12y agoI didn't badmouth any other language in that comment.