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NaN is not equal to NaN by the IEEE 754 standard. JavaScript, and many other modern languages, implement floating point numbers by this standard. E.g. in C#: > 0.0/0.0 == Double.Na…

Too late to edit. I meant this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLVvrb2-fY

And this is my favourite tutorial so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDR433b0HJY I think it explains everything in 80 minutes.

> I think that saying you can 'learn Haskell in a week' is really short sighted. You can learn to parse a Haskell program and write a guess-the-number program in a week, but learni…

Very pragmatic approach. C# if you are ok with the Microsoft stack, or F# if you are a bit more advantageous and serious about the "new way of thinking". Python is also a great inv…

I agree with you that it is everybody's own decision :) Although from a slightly philosophical point of view: how can one determine what levels are beyond their own knowledge, let …

I am looking forward to that experience :) Besides the technical reasons (nice syntax, pure fp, strong typing, ...) I chose Haskell to learn functional programming because it has a…

You have more experience here thanks for correcting me :) What I meant was that they are not two very different worlds. I myself picked Haskell over Lisp hoping to gain the benefit…

You have Lisp knowledge, so maybe Haskell is not the best candidate for "a new way you think". Given your background I would say you probably would enjoy Scala more than Java (targ…

I friend recommended Elixir to me, but I would rather learn Erlang properly. Erlang has a small community already, why to learn a language targeting Erlang VM that has even smaller…

After a long research I decided to learn Haskell. It is very unlikely that I will ever be paid to use it, but I am pretty sure that after more than 10 years experience in programmi…