2007/7/1, Andrew Coppin
I'm going to have to take some time to bend my mind around that one too...
(Does anybody else on this list frequently get the feeling their IQ is just too low for Haskell??)
I do. Sometimes when I find myself doing some type hackery. And that's a sad feeling. Not because I realise that my IQ is lower than it could be, but because the whole idea of Haskell is doing things fast and easily. While on that I can spend quite a lot of time. But that's only that fragment of work. The rest goes well :) When I do that, I may think "hey, seems like in Java I'd do that pretty quickly without a lot of thinking" but then you realise that you're striving for much more that you'd got in Java. Much more static garantees, so the comparison isn't correct at all.