On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 22:36:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 14:49 +0000, bachmeier via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […]
There's nothing wrong with Haskell if you want to take a deep
dive into pure functional programming. I personally find
Haskell to be more of a religion than a programming language.
You can learn the same perspective from functional-first
languages like Clojure, Scala, Ocaml, and F#.
[…]
Whilst I agree that most "this is the one true programming
language" people are quasi-religious, programming languages are
not: Haskell is a just a lazy, pure functional programming
language, some adherents show quasi-religious fervour, just as
some adherents of C++, Java, C, Go, Rust, D, etc. do.
I am not sure about F# (I do not know anything of it), but
Clojure, Scala, and OCaml are very different from Haskell for
various reasons, cf. lazy vs. eager, pure vs. impure. Haskell
is a programming language worth learning for all
programmers,along with Lisp, Prolog, and Erlang.
I'll bet (but I have no experimental data, just a hypothesis)
that any D programmer that knows Haskell writes better D than a
D programmer who doesn't know Haskell.
This is getting somewhat off the topic of this thread, so all
I'll say is that I agree with the recommendation to learn
Haskell, but I don't think a beginner would get enough exposure
to various approaches to programming. I did not personally see
large benefits from Haskell, but perhaps I should have stuck with
it longer.
