[DanWaterworth]

I got my first job. There's nothing like a dose of the real world to break you out of such phases. However, I still hadn't reached maturity, I just had a complete reversal and started writing everything in Haskell instead.

It's only been recently that I have started sitting down with projects and thinking, which language makes sense here?

[exDM69]

> However, I still hadn't reached maturity, I just had a complete reversal and started writing everything in Haskell instead.

I've been through these phases too. But they keep on recurring time after time. I've been writing everything in C, then C++, then Haskell, then back to C and this has been going on for years.

Well at least both Haskell and C have good educational value, so even if it is a bit odd, you're still learning valuable skills.

[sramsay]

I've been through these phases too. But they keep on recurring time after time.

Me too. As I get older, though (I'm well past "maturity" ;), I find myself going back to C more and more. I'm not exactly sure why.

I do think, though, that while our discussions of programming languages nearly always revolve around this or that feature making things easier, or more efficient, or more fault-tolerant, or whatever, there's also an element of "intellectual fun" (or something like that).

I won't say I never get aggravated writing C, but I often enjoy the puzzles that emerge. Trying to figure out how to do something in C, trying to visualize what's going on with the memory, creating clever little pointer-machines -- it's just as fun as doing analogous things with Lisp or Haskell (during one's obligatory Lisp and Haskell phases).