>> So how does one get off haskell? Are there people in similar situations >> that have managed? How did you do it?
I used to get annoyed about all the java boilerplate and awkwardness. But then I learned that if I relax and stop thinking so much about the aesthetics of what I'm writing, I can just let my fingers go on typing without having to think too much. Yes, it would have been shorter and more graceful in more capable languages, but I would have had to think more about how to factor things or apply the right abstractions. Ultimately the problems to be solved are the same, it's just that java and c++ give you a lot of padding where you're writing boilerplate and workarounds for not having closures, monadic values, a nice type system, etc. It could be relaxing in the same way that playing 3rd trombone could be: you still get to play technical music every once and a while, but you also get a lot of downtime to count rests and listen to the music, or play whole notes. There is a pleasure in that, even if it's not the same as when you're in the 1st violin section. Music is still being made, problems are still getting solved. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
