Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-25 Thread Johannes Waldmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Actually, come to think of it, one great way to show off the language is > to show off the power of some of the libraries that have been written. > For example, show how easily a parser can be created w/ Parsec; [...] yes, Parsec is amazing. I use

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Reid
Yaakov Nemoy wrote: I'm still very much a newbie, but the one thing that struck me as the best feature coming from Python is the static typing. Changing the type of a function in Python will lead to strange runtime errors that take some work to debug, whereas, when I tinker with a program in Ha