There&#39;s OOHaskell, which you can google for. The name&#39;s such a nice example of an aptronym: it&#39;s the Overlooked Object-oriented Haskell.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- Kim-Ee</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dhelta.diaz@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhelta.diaz@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello, Haskell Cafe folks.<br><br></div>My programming life (which has started about 3-4 years ago) has always been in the functional paradigm. Eventually, I had to program in Pascal and Prolog for my University (where I learned Haskell). I also did some PHP, SQL and HTML while building some web sites, languages that I taught to myself. I have never had any contact with JavaScript though. <br>


<br>But all these languages were in my life as secondary languages, being Haskell my predominant preference. Haskell was the first programming language I learned, and subsequent languages never seemed so natural and worthwhile to me. In fact, every time I had to use another language, I created a combinator library in Haskell to write it (this was the reason that brought me to start with the HaTeX library). Of course, this practice wasn&#39;t always the best approach.<br>


<br></div>But, why I am writing this to you, haskellers?<br><br></div>Well, my curiosity is bringing me to learn a new general purpose programming language. Haskellers are frequently comparing Object-Oriented languages with Haskell itself, but I have never programmed in any OO-language! (perhaps this is an uncommon case) I thought it could be good to me (as a programmer) to learn C/C++. Many interesting courses (most of them) use these languages and I feel like limited for being a Haskell programmer. It looks like I have to learn imperative programming (with side effects all over around) in some point of my programming life.<br>


<br></div>So my questions for you all are:<br><br></div>* Is it really worthwhile for me to learn OO-programming?<br><br></div>* If so, where should I start? There are plenty of &quot;functional programming for OO programmers&quot; but I have never seen &quot;OO programming for functional programmers&quot;.<br>


<br></div>* Is it true that learning other programming languages leads to a better use of your favorite programming language?<br><br></div>* Will I learn new programming strategies that I can use back in the Haskell world?<br>


<br></div>Thanks in advance for your kind responses,<br></div>Daniel Díaz.<br></div>
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