Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:45:45PM +0200, Silvio Frischknecht wrote:

Python would by my language of choice. You won't have to worry about low level stuff or typing, but can still write those step by step programs.

Amen brother! It's secondary school and I strongly suspect there won't be much time available. I love Haskell, but let's compare the time/effort to program a simple game in Python/Lua and in Haskell and you'll see it just makes more sense in this situation.