Inkyrius

The Girl Anachronism

 


 
This place is not a place of honour. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.

 
Inkyrius or Inky or Kyrie are all fine.
Girl with a dash of Void.

 
Queer Trans Nerd. Mostly Harmless.
Interests include programming, formerly Minecraft modding, conlangs, worldbuilding, maps, typography, etc.

 




prophet
@prophet

Jeez what an article. Haskell getting mainstream attention is probably nice and all but god, this really hit the jackpot of "Haskell is only for mathematicians", "Haskell is not actually a good programming language" and "Haskell programmers only solve useless intellectual exercies to express themselves, rather than solving actual problems" huh


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Could be worse. Looks like the author got lost in the last paragraphs.

might as well sign off each Haskell program with “QED.”

also I don't like this one. Fuck this one specific way of thinking.

Also, it's cool to see the "it's not chosen to be pragmatic" part but why go "it's like Kauffman" instead of just "people find it fun for some reason."

this one grinds my gears tbh

That Haskell never gained widespread adoption exemplifies a paradoxical truth in software engineering: Great programming languages aren’t always great for programming.

I'm reading that one as a form of "java, C++ and PHP suck but they have all the libs."
Not sure if I'm injecting in my own thoughts of if that was what the author meant.

idk that seems like a very generous interpretation given that it's followed up with sentences like these tbh

Writing in C is akin to precision engineering, requiring the kind of attention demanded of a skilled horologist. But Haskell code is, really, code-shaped mathematical expressions. C is a quintessential engineer’s language. Haskell is a pure mathematician’s.

Haskell programmers are style supremacists, and it’s nothing to apologize for. In an industry often fixated on utility and expediency, the Haskell community should not feel obligated to summon evidence of its usefulness. Instead, it should simply retort: What’s the problem with useless intellectual exercises?