Re: [Haskell-beginners] sometimes Haskell isn't what you want

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Darren Grant wrote:

Just adding another perspective: I developed the AI for a complex turn-based strategy game in C++. By the end of the process I found that I was not only continually repeating myself due to the language syntax because I needed a *lot* of specialized list manipulations, but I was also effectively composing pure functions.

This made me think that it could be much more effective to develop AI in a functional language. There's no way I could do this with Haskell presently as I am still struggling to approach all problems from the FP perspective first, but I do think there is the potential.

Cheers, Darren

I know of no decent taxonomy of programs. For example the Linux kernel runs, at least on my machines, for the great majority of my loads, for literally years without trouble. Most of the time, my standard stack of Emacs, quack, and Aubrey Jaffer's SCM, works just fine, though occasionally the repl-Emacs connection fails to behave properly. Usually one of a small standard set of repair tricks works to restore the repl. The famous "Unix pipeline of filters" is an example of part of the stuff that Functional Programming advocates advertise. And spreadsheets are an example of another one of the advertised advantages. Now these four things, the Linux kernel, the Emacs-SCM short stack, a Unix one liner, and a spreadsheet system, are all programs. They differ in presentation and in use and in implementation. Here is a missing book (I am aware of the just attack that this is too easy.): A Taxonomy of Computer Programs which would have at least one chapter for each of the the four kinds of programs. oo--JS.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Anindya Mozumdar wrote:

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I went back to it for one day (yesterday) and that was enough to make me realize how unpleasant its inconsistencies, inconsistent documentation, awkwardnesses, etc.

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Haskell is a gift and I'm not throwing it away.

Luckily this is a small list, otherwise a flame war would have started by now.

Personally, I learnt the basics of Haskell in the year 2000 in college. I am re-learning it again, and it's an absolute delight. I am not a programmer by profession - and this is the only language which *makes* me want to learn it as I am generally interested in math and bit of CS theory. It's also interesting to note that Haskell is being used in finance, and maybe I will get to use it professionally one day.

Regards, Anindya

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