[Haskell-beginners] do Haskell programs have fewer bugs?

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Nadir Sampaoli <nadirsampaoli at gmail.com>wrote:

> As the saying goes, less code means less potential for bugs :)
>
But you should look out for code golf, which isn't helpful.


> As someone who is still struggling to get past that learning phase where
> you only solve "simple" (usually one-liner) exercises, I'd like to ask you
> (and anyone reading this) how do you reason at a larger level?
>
There's a lot of low-lying fruit that's easily plucked leveraging
functional programming. I list the easiest ones that I know of here:

http://www.atamo.com/blog/low-lying-fruits-of-fp-1/

Of course, you still have to grapple and understand your specific problem
domain, whether it's web apps or auto music generation.


>  How do you work at a larger (module/project) level? Do you need to have
> mastered all the main monads (beyond list amd maybe) and monad transformers?
>
> Don't sweat them monads. The codebase for GHC doesn't even use monad
transformers iirc.

Sorry for the long rant.
>
Not at all. Haskell mailing lists used to have long, discursive
discussions, but somehow this one turned into some kind of rapid-fire Q&A.
Most of the interesting knowledge can't be unpacked in that format.

-- Kim-Ee
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