On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:55:08AM -0700, kynn wrote:
Perl is a large, ugly, messy language filled with quirks and eccentricities, while Haskell is an extremely elegant language whose design is guided by a few overriding ideas. (Or so I'm told.)
Based on this one would think that it would be much easier to learn Haskell than to learn Perl, but my experience is exactly the opposite. Haskell useful to the learner as quickly as possible... If such already
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exist and I've missed it, please let me know.
Or I can always wait until I retire; then I'll probably have a sufficiently long stretch of free time in my hands (barring any operations, strokes, heart attacks, hip fractures, etc.). I bet I could start a Haskell Wannabes Club at the nursing home...
kj
My experience is a lot like yours, except I retired 5 years ago, and still haven't learned Haskell. Unfortunately, I've had lots of interruptions that have kept me away from the keyboard. I've got a few unfinished projects, including one I started in Perl years ago, moved to Python, then moved to Haskell. The only useful thing I've programmed since I retired was a program to update my checkbook/bank statement postgresql database using Prolog for parsing entries the way I like to write them in a text file. Someday I'll move this to Haskell :-). I've sworn off other languages since I don't have any deadlines except my own. I never really learned Perl, but I used it a lot for simple one to thirty liners. The thing was, any thing I wanted to do I could find the bits and pieces of in "Learning Perl", "Programming Perl", or "Learning Perl/TK". I have on my shelf "Haskell: The craft...", "The Haskell school of expression", and "The Haskell road to Logic...". I've "read" them. I know I should sit down with each one at the computer and work through the exercises. But..,. When my current spate of unavoidable interruptions is over, I'll look into the email on Haskell one-liners, and some of the new tutorials to try to come back up to speed. Not in a nursing home yet! Good luck, John Velman