> "come on! it's fun! i can write foldr with foldl!" And when you try to explain that to your java-ITC-formatted friends, they utterly surprisingly seem not to care about it ^^
2011/5/31 Adrien Haxaire <adr...@adrienhaxaire.org> > Le 31/05/2011 21:15, Alberto G. Corona a écrit : > > Haskell is an academic asset as well as a fun asset. >> > > I fully agree. These are two of the three reasons which made me choose > haskell as the functional language to learn. Coding fortran all day, I > wanted a new approach on programming. The strong scientific roots of haskell > would give me stuff to learn and discover for a lot of time. The > atmosphere/halo around haskell was intriguing too: "come on! it's fun! i can > write foldr with foldl!" is not the kind of enthusiasm I was used too :) > > The third reason is, as you already now, the community. Never have seen so > much encouragements, help, time, humility, jokes,... crossing the gap takes > some time, but when you feel that lots of people are glad you're here, it's > just constant joy. > > group hug ! > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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