On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:26 +0200, Hugh Perkins wrote: > On 7/17/07, Thomas Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this is where I think Haskell has it all over C++, Java, > and the > rest. Haskell is easy to learn at a simple level, and hard to > learn at > the expert level, but once learned is very powerful and has > excellent > payoffs in terms of productivity. With C++ or Java, the > expertise is > somewhat easier to acquire, but you never get the payoff. And > before > you all flame, yes, I do know C++ at an expert level, and that > is > exactly why, after 7 years of writing server software in C++, > I now > want to do it in Haskell. > > You know, it just occurred to me: I get the feeling that many Haskell > programmers are ex-C++ programmers, which makes a certain amount of > sense because C++ is insanely hard to debug and maintain, because of > stack/heap corruption, and lack of a GC. > > Am I the only person who finds it interesting/worrying that there are > few to no people in the group who are ex-C# programmers. I mean, you > could argue that C# programmers are simply too stupid to do Haskell, > but ... you know, there is another explanation ;-)
Don't you think it's a little early for people to be abandoning C# en masse? For example, there are plenty of ex/current Java programmers. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
