[Haskell-cafe] New to Haskell: The End

Cristian Baboi cristi at ot.onrc.ro
Tue Dec 18 08:37:57 EST 2007


On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:33:55 +0200, Reinier Lamers  
<reinier.lamers at phil.uu.nl> wrote:

> Cristian Baboi wrote:
>> Haskell strengts as I see them:
>>
>> - it is "lazy with class"
>> - it is strongly typed
>> - it has automatic memory management
>> - it has a standard library
>> - it has a compiler
>> - it is available on several platforms
>> - it has a community
>> - it is free
>>
>> Is there anything you would like to add ?
> That list describes Java right on (apart from the "lazy with class",  
> which sounds Larry-Wall-ish though and might as well mean Perl :-)).
>
> Higher-order functions, purity, pattern-matching, no-nonsense syntax,  
> algebraic data types, ...

 From your list, I agree to add "some pattern matching abilities" to mine,  
but that it all.


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