People who can't handle Haskell

Get out of /prog/. Seriously.

Give up. Fewer people like you, trying to get their own thing off the ground, means less obstacles for me and heads I have to step on. I go out every day and crush it, even on days when I don't feel like doing anything, or when I get to a tedious part in my projects. I still go and bust my fuckin ass.

Why? Because I want it. I want success BADLY, and I'll work my ass off until I get there. I've tried several ventures, few have stuck with mild success until my current one. 9 years now I've been going at it, and I still fucking want it. I'm still FUCKIN HUNGRY.

So yeah, stay out of /prog/. This is territory best ruled by people like myself. If you can't taste it in your mouth every morning when you wake up.... if you can tolerate having a day job and being someone elses slave... if you can entertain the idea of giving up... then this isn't your gig. Go ahead and quit now.

I'll send a postcard from the top.

The hyper-enthusiasts are seemingly always going to congregate in some language. Once, they were in the Java camp. Today, they're in Haskell. I'm not speaking to these people; I'm speaking to the serious, intelligent programmer who has discovered that Haskell "fits his brain" like no other language before, but may be at a loss to explain in detailed scientific terms exactly why this might be so.

But – and this is going to be the hardest part to swallow – from the point of view of academic computer scientists like Dr. Huntbach, Haskell honestly introduces nothing new, and confuses some underlying concepts in ways which are, frankly, dangerous.