riccardo cagnasso wrote:
My opinion is that "learnin haskell is difficult" is just for the fact that when you learn programming, you probably begin with C / C++ or some other procedural/OO programming language...
Actually, my first language was Scheme; I loved it, and I aced the class, but that was many years ago, and I never had to code "real world" applications with Scheme. My problems with Haskell are not conceptual, but rather pragmatic. I have not been able to find enough support in Haskell for everyday tasks (e.g. read a stream from a socket; parse it into a simple data structure; process the data in the structure; print out the results to a socket; etc.), and unless I want to code large low-level libraries from scratch just to get conceptually simple tasks done, I can't afford to use Haskell (any more than I could afford to use barebones C, for that matter). And even though my interest in learning Haskell is not a "pragmatic" one (I'm quite productive with the tools I know; I just want to learn a new way to program, by way of intellectual curiosity), my life is such that, unless I can immediately make use of the language I'm attempting to learn, it just won't stick! The language needs it to be useful not because I need a tool, but because unless it is useful my brain just won't absorb it! kj -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-Perl-is-more-learnable-than-Haskell-tf3559193.html... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.