| ▲ | internet_points an hour ago | |
Heh, the article is kind of negative about Haskell's "success", but fun is exactly the reason why I still prefer Haskell over all other languages. | ||
| ▲ | jottinger an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Hey, I actually made a point out of laughing about it even as I wrote it - see the footnotes. Haskell's dedication is actually quite remarkable and respectable, and it's not "against success" but against trading "correctness" for "success." | ||
| ▲ | oblio an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I'll be blunt about this: It's probably also the reason statistically no one will be employed to work on a Haskell code base. Same for Lisp, F#, OCaml, etc. They're the hot rods of the software development world where everyone uses SUVs. | ||