I'm a noob programmer, and i've noticed that some languages are referred to as toy languages, and are much maligned. I know a small amount of Haskell and C, and everything seems much quicker and easier to do in Haskell, so why do people make fun of it all the time?
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Anonymous2007-10-04 11:33
everything seems much quicker and easier to do in Haskell, so why do people make fun of it all the time?
It is a well-known fact that a large part of the /prog/ userbase consists of non-programmers. Some actual (but stupid and inexperienced) programmer, whose programming expertise was based on exactly one language, namely C/C++/Java/Pascal/BASIC, posted in a moment of exceptional arrogance, a month or so ago a /prog/ post denouncing the popular functional programming languages he has zero experience with, using the argument that they are toy languages. Soon the aforementioned non-programming crowd realized the trolling potential and rapidly picked up the troll.