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

COBOL is verbose but at least it is easy to understand. but the current practices in enterprise java programming make legacy Java code verbose, complicated, low level and impossible to understand without profuse documentation, diagrams, web references etc. That documentation will disappear sooner or latter... 2015-09-01 10:40 GMT+02:00 Miguel Mitrofanov :

That's not very different from "being forced to use COBOL by your employer". Surely, I'll use one in this case (or quit), but it doesn't make it superior.

01.09.2015, 11:30, "Mike Meyer" :

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM M Farkas-Dyck wrote:

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On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer wrote:

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Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell. Name one.

Maintaining ~50-year old government systems that are written in COBOL. ,

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