odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Wed, 04 January 2012 at 10:45 PM
Quote - Haskell, eh? I saw Haskell mentioned on your GitHub page. Huh. Would it be more user-friendly (read: "accessible to dummies like Cage" :lol: ) than the Scala implementation?
I guess I'd have to say yes, because that code is so mind-blowingly horrible that anything I might come up with now can only be more accessible :biggrin:
I recommend you have a look at the book "Learn you a Haskell for great good", which is available to read online for free. I used to think Haskell was completely esoteric, not comprehensible for non-gurus and horrendeously impractical. After watching a couple of talks on YouTube and Vimeo and checking out that book, I complete reversed my opinion. True, there is all the esoteric stuff that one could do, but I think one can do a lot of interesting stuff with Haskell without getting into that. I'm not saying you will forever abandon Python, but you might start thinking about programming a little differently.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.