Yep, LINQ makes C# more enjoyable :-) Scala and haXe also look nice, a bit of a mix between OCaml/F#, C#/Java and Haskell. <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Besides the fact that hacking in Haskell is a great deal of fun, the main reason I see for learning Haskell: it makes you a better programmer. After a couple of years of playing with Haskell, I can now solve problems that I couldn't before. It's of course hard to tell if Haskell is the reason here, or just experience, but I feel it really is Haskell (actually, functional programming). Haskell made me see the world in a different way (and if I see Oleg's and co's code, I still have an infinitely long road ahead.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The main reason why you should not learn Haskell: it's a bit of a drug; after you learned Haskell, programming in an "industrial strength" language suddenly feels like a waste of time, time better spent learning more Haskell...</div>
<div><br></div><div>On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Deniz Dogan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com">deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2009/9/30 Andrew Coppin <<a href="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> (Mr C++ argues that homo sapiens fundamentally think in an imperative way,<br>
> and therefore functional programming in general will never be popular.<br>
<br>
</div>Sounds more like Mr C++ fundamentally thinks in an imperative way<br>
because that's what he is used to.<br>
<br>
I recently started working with C# and struggled for way too long with<br>
for/foreach loops to do things that in Haskell could be expressed<br>
using only folding, mapping and filtering. When I realised that those<br>
ideas actually exist in System.Linq I suddenly started liking the<br>
language a bit more.<br>
<br>
txtCommaSeparatedNames.Text.Split(',').Select(x => x.Trim()).Where(x<br>
=> x.Length > 0).Select(x => Convert.ToInt32(x)).ToList();<br>
<br>
Ah, the joy of FP.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Deniz Dogan<br>
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