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For what it's worth before someone takes it too seriously, the target audience is Haskellers: I'm preaching to the choir but pretending to give other languages
by chrisdone 12y ago
For what it's worth before someone takes it too seriously, the target audience is Haskellers: I'm preaching to the choir but pretending to give other languages due diligence. Using Haskell for this is a priori.
- techdragon 12y agoAnd this is why Haskell is developing into the next "brogrammer" problem, except this time it's not as easy to give a catchy name to. Haskell programmers are developing a reputation (at least it seems so from the people I work with regularly as a system administrator) as arrogant obsessive purists. Would it be that hard to give python and Perl programmers a reason to consider Haskell for their next shell script? We aren't stupid, we will use what's good and worth it, many programmers start out writing simple imperative scripts, they are wonderful places to learn new skills, so why be dismissive about non Haskell programmers like this. Not saying you are trying to be an asshole, just saying that the lack of reasons other than "Haskell is better, just accept it" pisses off a lot of people and the more we see that message the more grating it becomes.