What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by Cieplak » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 7:31 AM UTC

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell
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Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by dcl » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 9:25 AM UTC

Great timing. I was just pondering what functional programming language I should attempt to learn in all my new downtime.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by CJefferson » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC

I feel this might have grown beyond its title.

Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by quchen » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #3

I feel this might have grown beyond its title. Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.

I'm pretty sure this (evolving) article has been around well before VSCode's initial release.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by lmm » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:14 AM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #3

I feel this might have grown beyond its title. Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.

I have to agree. A more opinionated guide would be more useful than one full of so many long lists of alternatives; a learner is in no position to make those choices.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by CJefferson » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:17 AM UTC

quchen wrote: post #4

CJefferson wrote: post #3

I feel this might have grown beyond its title. Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.

I'm pretty sure this (evolving) article has been around well before VSCode's initial release.

I'm sure you are right. That is just picking at one thing I will admit, but I do use vscode, so when I saw a section about how to best use haskell in vscode i was interested. I'm not interested enough, or as a beginner qualified, to evaluate 7 options.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by eska » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:26 AM UTC

Not what I expected. Seems to be more of a primer/tutorial.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by kmorgh » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:32 AM UTC

I like this reference style of documentation, it tries to give a full overview of everything there is. Which is usually what I'm looking for. The sections are also concise.

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by Apollidore » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:35 AM UTC

dcl wrote: post #2

Great timing. I was just pondering what functional programming language I should attempt to learn in all my new downtime.

Haskell is fun, but bear in mind that it's followes a purely functional programming paradigm, meaning you either do things the Haskell or you don't do them :). But it's a fun language to learn, and there are lots of free quality ressources on the internet

Re: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 10:37 AM UTC

What's up with the formatting on this page? In Firefox for iOS (same rendering engine as mobile Safari), all lines but the first one in code listings have 4-character indents, and lines use a larger-than-normal font size seemingly at random.