[Haskell-beginners] clarity and complexity of Haskell code?

[Ozgur Akgun]

Hi.

On 25 September 2011 18:10, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> You must at least agree that it is short.


Not trying to start language wars here, but it is not terribly short for
what it does. The following code does the same thing in C#, and isn't far
longer. And it has more or less a one-to-one correspondence to the given
Haskell code; open a file for reading, open a file for writing, read some
number of bytes, apply the transformation, write it to the output file.
Flushing the input/output buffers and closing the files are handled by the
using construct, similar to withFile in the Haskell example.

int chunksize = 4096;
using (var r = new BinaryReader(File.OpenRead("infile")))
    using (var w = new BinaryWriter(File.OpenWrite("outfile")))
        for (var buffer = r.ReadBytes(chunksize); buffer.Length > 0; buffer
= r.ReadBytes(chunksize))
            w.Write(Array.ConvertAll(buffer, p => (byte) ~p));

I think the habit of using quite a few operators in Haskell does make the
learning curve steeper.

I am not trying to say that the C# code is *better. *Just that the Haskell
code is not terribly short in this case and it can be a bit cryptic for a
newbie.

Best,
Ozgur
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