I have been learning Haskell for the last two weeks and was relaying that exact benefit to my friend in attempts to convert him. I spend 3 hours getting a few functions to compile, but when they do, they just work. Every time.
2009/2/14 Peter Verswyvelen <bugf...@gmail.com> > One of the things I liked a lot when working with C# was that as soon as my > code compiled, it usually worked after an iteration of two.At least if we > forget about the nasty imperative debugging that is needed after a while > because of unanticipated and unchecked runtime side effects. > After heaving read about Haskell and having written some small programs for > the last year or so, I'm now finally writing a bigger program with it. It is > not so easy yet since learning a language and trying to reach a deadline at > the same time is hard :) > > However, it is just amazing that whenever my Haskell program compiles > (which to be fair can take a while for an average Haskeller like me ;-), it > just... works! I have heard rumors that this was the case, but I can really > confirm it. > > A bit hurray for strong typing! (and if you don't like it, you can still > use Dynamic and Typeable ;-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - A. Einstein
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