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Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by ky3 »

jeremyjh wrote: post #48
koide wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate a bit on that? Why is Haskell much more interesting?

I just meant it is more interesting to me right now. Scala is really interesting too, but I've been working with it longer. So its just relative to my current interests. I like being challenged to take a purely functional approach to problem solving. One thing I like better about Haskell which is not time-bound to my own journey is that the language is so much cleaner and more concise. In functional programming it is…

One man's concision is another man's line noise:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/13l9vj/getting_star...

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by sambeau »

gclaramunt wrote: post #56
jheriko wrote: post #24

i'm assuming this guy has done real world work before? the idea of a compiler/language lead programmer effectively having lived in academia is terrifying on many levels. best of luck to him at any rate. haskell and ghc are a cool language and compiler combo, one i have enjoyed for recreational programming time and time again.

err... do you know that (since 1.4 IIRC) the java compiler is the one written by Martin Odersky?

…and Philip Wadler principle designer of the Haskell programming language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Java_(programming_langu...

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by bowyakka »

vorg wrote: post #85
bad_user wrote: post #66

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> with Clojure (and Scala's functional support) There's this perception that Scala is less FP than a language like Clojure and I don't understand why, when in my (albeit limited) experience, I found the contrary to be true. This impression that's perpetuated is IMHO only folklore coming from people that only played around with these languages superficially. Scala feels more like a functional programming language to m…

Scala and Clojure, the two leading alternative languages for the JVM, certainly have different strengths: * Scala is statically typed, even using parametric types, while Clojure is dynamically typed * Scala enables auto-currying when methods are defined in the Haskell style, while Clojure focuses on variadic functions * Scala has easy-to-read syntax, with easy-to-remember operator precedences, while Clojure has synta…

Your macro argument is a terrible one, you can do exactly the same thing with any sane language (and indeed I have done, getting python to create boilerplate java)

You dont need macros for this (which your post shows since I cant see any defmacro used there)

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by vorg »

bowyakka wrote: post #103
vorg wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scala and Clojure, the two leading alternative languages for the JVM, certainly have different strengths: * Scala is statically typed, even using parametric types, while Clojure is dynamically typed * Scala enables auto-currying when methods are defined in the Haskell style, while Clojure focuses on variadic functions * Scala has easy-to-read syntax, with easy-to-remember operator precedences, while Clojure has synta…

Your macro argument is a terrible one, you can do exactly the same thing with any sane language (and indeed I have done, getting python to create boilerplate java) You dont need macros for this (which your post shows since I cant see any defmacro used there)

The first half I wrote (i.e. the 4 comparisons) was really the main point of my comment, rather than the "get started if you're eager" example code.

Re: Leaving Microsoft

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Post by aidenn0 »

jheriko wrote: post #93
vitalique wrote: post #52

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>It's tempting to down vote him Why? Ignoring the ignorance does no good. Trend you've mentioned is nothing new, sadly, but if you are on the weaker side (the one that intellectuals always tend to find themselves on), the way to win is not to try to down vote clueless guys into the light-grey invisibility, imo, but to try to explain to them what's wrong with their view of the world.

What is so ignorant about the statement? Enlighten me...

plinkplonk more or less said it all. PHP and Perl being the notable exceptions the vast majority of widely used langauges were developed by academics.
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