Re: [Haskell-beginners] Re: Is haskell a good choice for someone, who never programmed before?

Hi Edgar, If your friend is get-things-done kind of guy, in the beginning I think a language's Googleability is as important as the language itself. Second, is the language's ecosystem of development tools and libraries. I would pick a well supported language with functional features like Python or getting anything done will be frustrating. Haskell is awesome as a second language because it has a lot of features that don't make any sense (monads, for example) until you've done without them. -deech On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:13 PM, edgar klerks wrote:

Yeah, he is introducing me into his world. It is more interesting than I thought. We are applying for a license from the AFM (Financial Market Authority), which is pretty stringent in the Netherlands.  So I am helping him with a business case.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Marc Weber wrote:

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If you'd ask me only I'd eventually say that you should know both worlds today .. At least a little bit. It always depends on the use case.

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