On 12/10/05, Christophe Plasschaert
First, i'd like to say good day to everybody.
Good Day.
I didn't find enough information to anwser this question: Being interesting in learning another way of programming besides C and perl i started watching other languages.
These are my candidates:
Okay, here we go. This is all very subjective from my own limited experience, of course.
- ada;
Never really got into it, but seems better than "some" (I'm looking at you, C++!)
- erlang;
Isn't strongly typed, isn't pure, and isn't lazy. However, it IS functional so that makes it quite pleasant to program in. Code is often short and elegant, just like in Haskell. It's excellent for network and concurrent programming. Better than Haskell even, despite STM. Erlang was built with this in mind so it's quite convenient to send messages etc.
- clisp or scheme;
I only have limited experience but both seem nice. I can't see a real compelling reason to use it over Haskell. The main reason I think Haskell is a better choice is purity.
and of course - haskell.
My language of choice for most problems. Elegant and pure. It does lack some libraries, though. Especially for dealing with "lower level" stuff, and there's no real standard (official or de facto) data structures library (Edison was a great start, but for some reason it never amounted to anything truly useful). If you hadn't mentioned networking specifically, I would've recommended Haskell without hesitation. But you did, and therefor I'll also recommend Erlang. I do think Haskell is a better starter language for FP though, because it's pure and strongly typed. So learn the ropes in Haskell and then take a look at Erlang and hopefully some of your bad C habits will have died off so that you won't abuse the unsafe features of it :-) /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862