blackbook

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by blackbook 12y ago
I have seen the /r/haskell subreddit. I lurked there for a few of months and my overall impression of it unfortunately is a sizable portion of people on that subreddit treat others exactly in the way which I have been treated whil
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by blackbook 12y ago
I am looking to write some scientific programs in which I have a good degree of confidence is accurate and are easily understandable, maintainable, and extendible. Speed, in terms of both writing the programs and running them, is also a fac
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by blackbook 12y ago
> I mean, how does the logic even work that leads from "some people think that this text is good for learning about X but I find it is 'inadequate and sometimes confusing' to me" to "X isn't generally worthw
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by blackbook 12y ago
PC-lint. It has served me well.
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by blackbook 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I see 5 benefits listed. Concise code; native code optimization (LLVM) and compilation; parallel and concurrent runtime; debuggers, profiling tools, refactoring, coverage, testing tools; library support, distribution me
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by blackbook 12y ago
I am confused. If you feel there are much better languages than Haskell, how would Haskell be the "theoretically most advanced language"? As far as what I have learned and how I have been studying, I did try "Learn You a Hask
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by blackbook 12y ago
So, the only tangible benefit you see is "it enriches our understanding as a community regarding language design and program design"? To be clear, when you say, "I think that is a worthwhile enough contribution," are you
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by blackbook 12y ago
So, are you saying there are no tangible benefits?
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by blackbook 12y ago
Where would you suggest I ask?
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Ask HN: What are specific tangible benefits of learning Haskell?
18 points by blackbook 12y ago|34 comments