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I learned Haskell in just 15 years
ow I learned Haskell in just 15 years by Evan Silberman, Duckrabbit Solutions Haskell is a programming language invented sometime in the 20th century by Scottish logicians as a prank.¹ Fifteen years or so ago, for reasons I can no longer remotely recall, I started learning Haskell. Now, I have finally written a useful program in Haskell, and I am pretty sure I can do it again, if I ever need another computer program.
I contrived to do an independent study in functional programming with the help of my next-door dorm neighbor, who was a Common Lisp fan and Emacs user with four LCD monitors. In the mainstream dynamic languages (Perl/Python/Ruby/JS), dictly-typed programming is common to begin with: it’s quick and uncomplicated to build business logic around dictionaries with implicitly-expected sets of keys. Somewhere during this whole period of my life I watched Gary Bernhardt’s seminal talk Boundaries, which makes a case for employing immutable data and pure functions in the context of object-oriented dynamic languages.
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