[boblol123]

This is a blog about functional languages, so this man obviously knows a lot about Haskell but still required help for a game that would be prettymuch a hello world for someone in almost any other language.

I know nothing of your abilities, even so, if haskell is the only language you know well, I'd be impressed if you could make the game as fast as me or most ppl here.

[mbrubeck]

The first paragraph of the post explains, "it’s my first, real foray into Haskell."

If your first real program in any language was a Tetris game, you'd probably need some help getting started too.

As shown by the various games posted elsewhere in this thread, there are perfectly trivial and straightforward ways to write games in Haskell. If nothing else, Haskell's "do notation" makes it easy to safely mix imperative programming with pure functional programming.

When people do post about writing a game in a new language as a notable achievement, it's usually because they did it in part to learn a new language (as in this case) or a new concept (like using FRP or Erlang-style message passing, instead of imperative programming with mutable state).

[boblol123]

Sorry, I missed that sentence, yes you're right. I read the bit to the right of the blog and the blog title which give the impression that he was experienced with Haskell.