haskell is fucking awesome, anyone who says otherwise needs to go back to his fucking java and do the kind of enterprise bullshit "work" i'll fucking spit on for the rest of my life
case (haskell :: Either Dead Alive) of
Left dead -> "goodnight, sweet prince"
Right alive -> "hell yeah, motherfuckers!"
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Anonymous2008-03-20 22:02
haskell is one of those odd beasts, like lisp and prolog, that only ever get used for obscure research stuff and groundbreaking ai work, but they do get used and do some damned neat stuff in those places where they're used.
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Anonymous2008-03-20 22:22
I programmed my first ANSI C compiler in Prolog.
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Anonymous2008-03-20 22:22
When I was 5.
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Anonymous2008-03-20 22:34
The Haskall language is often uses by very intelligent programmers, it often allows to use lazy computations and iterations, but it has the advantage that its iterators behave better (than in Python), and during the generation of some items you can, when you want, refer and use the items already generated.
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Anonymous2008-03-20 23:29
>>31
Ja being pure means objects/values never change, meaning copies don't have to be made, of data, like getting a substring, or whatever. You just use the existing string like a pointer in C. So if you write a parser that parses some big string of text into a tree, you're likely to use the same existing memory.
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Anonymous2008-03-21 1:26
>>31
Haskell is the world's leading purely fictional programming language.