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by Osmium
4164 days ago
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I've never formally studied CS, but I can definitely see the benefit. I can divide my own (amateur) programming experience into pre-Haskell and post-Haskell. Before I started learning Haskell, I thought I knew how to use a good half a dozen or more programming languages. After I started learning Haskell, I realised I'd really only known how to use one all along, and that they were all fundamentally the same. I wish I'd had the experience sooner (plus, learning Haskell is just plain fun). |
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The nontraditional categories I've encountered are something like:
The macro facilities in lisp, scheme, forth (or factor), template haskell, and C++ templates.
Array languages like APL, K, or R.
Prototype inheritance with smalltalk or Lua.
Avoiding side effects with Haskell, Ocaml, or C#'s linq.
The "we're serious about type theory" languages like Haskell, coq, agda, and idris.