Name: Anonymous 2009-09-01 14:27
Haskell's type system really is THE BEST.
I recently programmed a simple single-instance file storage system in Erlang (to be used as a storage backend for my future archivers/scrapers/etc). I decided to use Erlang because I wanted the system to work as a remote server and I quite like Erlang's actor model.
Anyway, as I don't really program in Erlang at all, I made lots of really stupid mistakes (mostly forgetting that some return values are wrapped in the list monad or forgetting to pass some arguments in the list monad), which I could find instantly if Erlang had a type system like Haskell.
On the other hand, I really like Erlang's pattern matching against bound variables (I don't think Haskell has something like that?).
Anyway, discuss your experiences with your favourite programming languages in this thread.
I recently programmed a simple single-instance file storage system in Erlang (to be used as a storage backend for my future archivers/scrapers/etc). I decided to use Erlang because I wanted the system to work as a remote server and I quite like Erlang's actor model.
Anyway, as I don't really program in Erlang at all, I made lots of really stupid mistakes (mostly forgetting that some return values are wrapped in the list monad or forgetting to pass some arguments in the list monad), which I could find instantly if Erlang had a type system like Haskell.
On the other hand, I really like Erlang's pattern matching against bound variables (I don't think Haskell has something like that?).
Anyway, discuss your experiences with your favourite programming languages in this thread.