[Haskell-beginners] Haskell as a useful practical 'tool' for intelligent non-programmers

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 04/27/2012 05:59 PM, Nicholas Kormanik wrote:
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> “You might find it easier to use languages like Perl, Python, or Ruby…”
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> In a nutshell, which of these to start with?  I’m totally clueless.  And
> it all seems so daunting.
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> Yes, I’m a big user of little nifty tools/utilities you programmers put
> out, free to the world.  It’s simply amazing what you programmers
> accomplish.  I’m always searching the web to find new ones.
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> But it would be terrific to be able to do some of that myself – if I
> could find a good practical ‘tool’ to make my own little tools, to
> extemporaneously cobble together as needed.

Give Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) a try. It combines several open
source libraries into a cohesive system, something like Mathematica.
Version 5.0 will be released Real Soon Now.