Nice article from Bartosz , thanks for sharing this. The best comment (and oh so true IMO) on his article is: "I agree, however, a little more familiarity than that may result in the desire never to see another line of C++ again, so you have to be careful." Although learning Haskell improved my programming skills greatly, it also took away some of the "joy" I had in other programming languages like C++. C# 3.0 & 4.0 are the exception, it offers just the right balance for me (maybe F# or Scala too, I don't have enough experience with those). Maybe because Haskell had a fair bit of influence on C#? At least that's what I could make out of this very enjoyable video of Eric Meijer (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Brian-Beckman-and...) On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

You may enjoy this interesting blog post by Bartosz Milewski about understanding C++ template metaprogramming by starting with Haskell.

http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/what-does-haskell-have-to-do...

Bartosz gave the talk at the Northwest C++ users group; the video for the talk will be linked eventually on the NWCPP website: http://nwcpp.org/

Simon

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