Awesome!
I'm reminded of the IRC post that said that "Haskell is bad, it makes you hate other
languages."
Mike
Dan Weston wrote:
And here's my guide for public health officials...
WARNING: Learning Haskell is dangerous to your health!
Disguised as a fully-functional programming language, Haskell is
actually a front for a working math-lab, supported by a cult of
volunteers seeking to ensnare weak-headed but normal programmers
susceptible to the dogma that laziness is a virtue.
Though cut with syntactic sugar to be more palatable to newbies, each
Haskell construct is in fact a contagious mix of higher-order functions,
lambda expressions, and partial applications, a highly addictive gateway
drug to category theory, initial algebras, and greco-morphisms.
Some users have gotten trapped inside an IO monad unable to get out
safely, and even gone mad trying to decipher commutative diagrams or
perfect their own monad tutorial. Signs of addiction include prefixing
co- to random words or needlessly replacing recursive functions with
combinators and pointfree notation. The least fixed point of this
unnatural transformation is the inability to find joy in the use of
imperative programming languages. In some cases, hackage is irreversible
and can lead to uncontrolled blogging.
Further study is needed to understand the strong correlation between
intelligence and Haskell addiction. Meanwhile, those at risk should be
made to program in teams to suppress their creative drive.
Dan Weston
Paul Johnson wrote:
This page (http://www.npdbd.umn.edu/deliver/elevator.html) has a
template for an "elevator pitch". This is what you say to someone
when you have 30 seconds to explain your big idea, for instance if you
find yourself in an elevator with them. I thought I'd try
instantiating it for Haskell.
For software developers who need to produce highly reliable software
at minimum cost, Haskell is a pure functional programming language
that reduces line count by 75% through reusable higher order functions
and detects latent defects with its powerful static type system.
Unlike Ada and Java, Haskell allows reusable functions to be combined
without the overhead of class definitions and inheritance, and its
type system prevents the hidden side effects that cause many bugs in
programs written in conventional languages.
Comments?
Paul.
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