[Haskell-beginners] Re: Is haskell a good choice for someone, who never programmed before?

[aditya siram]

Hi Edgar,
If your friend is get-things-done kind of guy, in the beginning I
think a language's Googleability is as important as the language
itself. Second, is the language's ecosystem of development tools and
libraries.

I would pick a well supported language with functional features like
Python or getting anything done will be frustrating.

Haskell is awesome as a second language because it has a lot of
features that don't make any sense (monads, for example) until you've
done without them.

-deech

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:13 PM, edgar klerks <edgar.klerks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, he is introducing me into his world. It is more interesting than I
> thought. We are applying for a license from the AFM (Financial Market
> Authority), which is pretty stringent in the Netherlands.  So I am helping
> him with a business case.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> If you'd ask me only I'd eventually say that you should know both worlds
>> today .. At least a little bit. It always depends on the use case.
>>
>> Marc Weber
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