[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

Andy Stewart lazycat.manatee at gmail.com
Fri May 7 21:07:19 EDT 2010


Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 23:36:26, Limestraël wrote:
>> but you will not object if I say that scheme is quicker to learn
>> than Haskell.
>
> Well, I do object. Learning Haskell went like a breeze (not to perfection, 
> but well enough). Only Python was nearly as easy and quick to learn.
> Learning Lisp dialects is much harder (to a large part because of the 
> parentheses, which makes them near impossible to parse).
Perhaps you need perfect lisp editor (emacs) to help you parse those
parentheses. :)

Looks below extension to highlight parentheses if you're emacser.
It help you parse parentheses when you through *parentheses forest*.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightParentheses

  -- Andy




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