[Haskell-cafe] Re: A heretic question

[Mauricio]

What kind of things do you prefer? Databases, science,
math, web?

At first, make sure you have Bjarne Stroustrup book
(very important: last edition). If there's anything good
in C++, it's there. Look also at his homepage:

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html

Bjarne is the guy who first started C++, and in a certain
way still leads its development.

> What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and
> library interfaces would you choose to do in C++?
> 
> I'm asking 'cos I'm learning C++ and can't get the proper motivation to
> do any program I can think of in it: If I need abstraction, I'm
> thinking Haskell or Scheme, and if I'm thinking performance, C itself
> more than suffices.
> 
> Plus template programming makes me shudder because of its atrocities
> against clear and straightforward FP, but that's a different matter.
> 
> Coming to think of it, a compiler from a clean syntax to C++ templates
> sounds like a fun project... which I'd do in Haskell.
>