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I think the issue is that Haskell people basically assume that if they don't have feature X themselves, it has to suck and can't count as a strength of another
by frowaway001 12y ago
I think the issue is that Haskell people basically assume that if they don't have feature X themselves, it has to suck and can't count as a strength of another language.
For instance, Scala's OO/module system is one of the best ones out there, but is readily dismissed by Haskell people, despite modularity being a complete train-wreck in Haskell.
- tel 12y agoPersonally I feel most Haskellers wish that Haskell had ML style modules—there just needs to be a way to make them play with Typeclasses properly. It's being actively worked on at this moment, actually! I think there's a good argument, albeit one I'm not qualified to make, about whether Ml modules or Scala objects are better.