On 1/28/07, Alexy Khrabrov
How do people stumble on Haskell?
Read Ullman's book on ML. Look at Haskell at that point, but was insufficiently mathematically sophisticated to "get it" (hey, I was sixteen). Wrote numerical analysis code in Forth for a year or so. Hacked on a several hundred thousand line FORTRAN 77 codebase. Wrote the simulation code for my physics thesis in C. Decided I never wanted to instantiate, destroy, or otherwise manage memory ever again. Had a hate-hate relationship with MATLAB, decided Mathematica was rubbish. Remembered Haskell. Now creating the programmatic equivalent of a cyborg, hunchback puppeteer to control a Java image analysis program in Scheme. So of course the best work I've done has been completely analytic mathematical physics without reference to computing of any kind. And I'm a biologist. This is known as being born in the Random monad. -- Frederick Ross Graduate Fellow, (|Siggia> + |McKinney>)/sqrt(2) Lab The Rockefeller University Je ne suis pas Fred Cross!