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

Hi Deech On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:25 AM, aditya siram wrote:

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.

I am somewhat prejudiced, I always am about my newest language I am (still) learning. But I find haskell has a lot of interesting lib, but sometimes things are a bit undocumented. I have to admit that. Haskell is my hobby language at the moment. I am slowly introducing it. HaXml is really nice on the workfloor. I have used parsec too a couple of times. If he is starting from scratch he can pick the strange features up as if there are normal. That would be a huge benefit. My own problem was that I had an imperative way of thinking. So it would be interesting to see, if he has the same problems as I had. I think I would first try to learn him a bit of haskell and If he chokes on it I can switch back to another language. Python would be a good choice. I like python. It is easy to pick up. And it doesn't have the bad habits php has. Tnx for your advice. Greets, Deech

-deech

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:13 PM, edgar klerks wrote:

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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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