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by digitalzombie 3959 days ago
> * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and

I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang.

The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion.

edit: Erlang and Haskell was just side hobby. I didn't do anything major with them. But I thought the languages were small enough, Haskell has such a clean looking syntax.

Oh, I think you're trying to say the threshold of being good with haskell is much higher? Cause I see that argument quite and bit.

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> > * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and

> I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang.

> The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion.

I use Clojure, generally like functional programming, and am fine using recursion.

> Haskell has such a clean looking syntax.

I have gotten fond of Clojure's Lisp-like syntax.

> Oh, I think you're trying to say the threshold of being good with haskell is much higher? Cause I see that argument quite and bit.

Not sure -- haven't spent any time with Haskell. Never tried Erlang either. Do you think it generally takes longer to become productive with Haskell than with other functional programming languages?