Did you come to Haskell from Python? was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected?

[Bryn Keller]

Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:

>Remi Turk <rturk at science.uva.nl> writes:
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>>At least one. (Me) And, judging from the amount of references to
>>Python in these mailing-lists, I really doubt I'm the only one.
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>At least two. I also came to Haskell from Python.
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Me three.

>>I actually met Haskell mostly by reading about it in the python
>>mailinglist/newsgroup. (in e.g. Alex Martelli's posts)
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>I met Haskell because I started writing all of my Python code with a single
>return point, was overusing reduce and map, building function pipelines, and
>finally someone asked me if I'd used Haskell before.
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I met Haskell by first meeting Vyper, which was a more
functionally-slanted variant of Python, which was written in Ocaml. This
led me to Haskell, which I liked better.

>>>  Haskell is beautiful on the outside and the inside.  :-)
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>Yes, Haskell is beautiful inside and outside. That's something that has kept me
>interested in it for years. 'Conceptually pure' is what I call it.
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Yep.

Bryn