Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Is there anyone out there who can translate C# generics into Haskell?

On 6 Jan 2008, at 2:13 AM, Achim Schneider wrote:

Jonathan Cast wrote:

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On 4 Jan 2008, at 2:00 AM, Nicholls, Mark wrote:

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You may be right...but learning is not an atomic thing....wherever I start I will get strange things happening.

The best place to start learning Haskell is with the simplest type features, not the most complicated. And it's the simplest features that are most unlike OO.

Yes, Haskell will be `strange'. But if you think you're `the intersection' between Haskell and OO, you'll think things are familiar, and you'll be surprised when they turn out to be different. I'd concentrate on watching out for differences --- but then I can't imagine how finding `familiar' ideas would help.

just a sec...

things like

come to mind.

But then this has more to do with Monads than with classes. IO, in particular, and GL and GLUT, which are state machines and thus predestined for OOP.

Your example is very unintuitive and unidiomatic Haskell. The reference to GL makes me think this is for a `low-level' binding to an imperative library, no? Those are scarcely good places to learn Haskell. jcc